Update Items

Update Items is a gh-element that allows to update already existed items. It is a comfortable instrument for editing data in lots of items at the same time.

Simply select the items you want, click the Update Items button, and change the data in any field. Once applied, all selected items will be updated.

Functional Characteristics

With this button, the user can update a large number of items much more faster. It also allows user to remotely update application data from another application.

Value Format

It is an element that does not have any value.

Element Options

The current gh-element has the same settings as the Add Items button. They consists of three groups of settings.

Field and Reference Settings

The first block contains two main types of settings, Field and Reference Settings. Actually, there are only one reference setting. In turn, the field settings consist of standard options and important configuration options.

Destination App

This is an application whose items will be updated.

View Name

This name belongs to the view that will be opened after clicking on the Update Items button.

Show Dialog

With this feature, the update view will open as a popup window.

Dialog View Name

This is the view that will be opened in the popup window if the Show Dialog is on. In other case, Dialog View Name is not available.

Express Update

This function is used to update items without opening the corresponding view. Then only fields selected in Fields to Field will be updated.

Field For Reference

The selected field will contain the ID of the destination application after updating items.

Fields to field

These settings are used to set fields which will be updated in any case. Here you also configure new values for these fields. There are two types of that values:

1. Values taken from other fields

   

2. Value entered in settings

   

Source Field

This is the field whose value will be taken for updating the destination field.

User Value

This is the value entered in the settings. It will be used to update the destination field.

Show Input

This function determines what type of value will be used to update the data in a certain field. If enabled, the Source Field is used. In the other case, the User Value is used.

Destination Field

This is the field that will be updated.

Edit

This column contains buttons for editing and deleting the update option.

Element Style

As for the style settings, there are no unique settings except one. Even its types of interpretation are not very unique.

General Settings

The only additional style setting is here.

Show Button Name

This switch allows you to set whether the button name of the current element is displayed or not

Data Model

The item has a rather large data model:

{
    "data_model": {
        "dest": {
            "app_id": "28998"
        },
        "dialog_view_id": "1536017",
        "express_update": 0,
        "interpretation": [],
        "options": [{
            "dest_field_id": "682037",
            "show_input": 0,
            "source_field_id": "682038"
        },{
            "dest_field_id": "682032",
            "show_input": 1,
            "user_field_value": "example@gmail.com"
        }],
        "reference": {
            "field_id": "682037"
        },
        "show_dialog": 1,
        "view_id": "1536017"
    }
}

Filtration

This element cannot be filtered.

Interpretation

Since this element is a button, it has the appropriate types of interpretation.

Default

In the first interpretation, the item is displayed as an icon with the name of the button next to it.

Icon

Due to the second type, the element is displayed as an icon with the button name below.

Button

The latter interpretation allows you to display the item as a blue button with an icon and the name of the button.