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add option 'snippet returns false' to rendering options menu

  • July 8, 2024
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When picking an option to render something it would be convenient to have an option “snippet returns false” in addition to the option of “snippet returns true.”

My use case:

I have two buttons. One says “show preferred records only”, which queries a model to show user specific preferred records, and another that says “show all records” which queries a model and ignores the model condition for user preferred records. I only want to show one button at a time. When the preferred records are displayed, I show “show all records” and when all records are displayed, I show the button “show preferred records only.” In order to do that, I had to write two snippets, which do the same exact thing, except one returns the complement value of the other.

If I had an option of “snippet returns false” I’d be able to get away with one snippet!

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Shmuel,

Can you just have your snippet check the value of whatever field you’re using to conditionally render your buttons to decide if it should include the condition or not?


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Ah, nevermind…

But I think in your use case you could just create a ui-only checkbox to turn on/off and use that for your rendering condition. That would allow you to have one snippet, if I’m understanding correctly.


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That’s what I ended up doing, thanks! I try to keep the number of components/fields small since it’s not possible to document it in the page (and I can document JavaScript).