# Can I reference components by name? **URL:** \ **Category:** Questions about Thunkable X\ **Created:** [February 19, 2020, 5:07pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/can-i-reference-components-by-name/473846 "2020-02-19T17:07:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![maxb](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/maxb/32/35200_2.png) [@maxb](https://community.thunkable.com/u/maxb)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2020, 5:07pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/can-i-reference-components-by-name/473846/1 "2020-02-19T17:07:45Z")
Hello everybody, I left the platform for a long time since it was too slow on my pc, but now I don’t know if they fixed it or is it cause I switched to linux, but it’s working better, so I’m back but I still see that something that i need to automatize my app is missing, the possibility to use the actual name of the component i created. I mean: I have many buttons that basically do the same thing, but every button changes certain variables, like, if i press the margherita, the price goes to 1, if i press another pizza it goes to 1.2 etc, to fully automate it letting me use the clone function in the proper way i need to ‘access’ the component name when it is cloned, or just when i use the any button block. E.g. if my label is called label\_price\_of\_margherita, if I can access to that value I can automatically assign a value to the text that it has to show. [https://docs.thunkable.com/any-component-blocks#the-component-item-block-1](https://docs.thunkable.com/any-component-blocks#the-component-item-block-1) I hope I was clear enough on what I’d like to see in the platform ---
**Author:** ![domhnallohanlon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/domhnallohanlon/32/29554_2.png) [@domhnallohanlon](https://community.thunkable.com/u/domhnallohanlon)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2020, 5:33pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/can-i-reference-components-by-name/473846/2 "2020-02-19T17:33:49Z")
Hey @maxb, welcome back! Yep, we made an update and everything is much faster for larger projects now. Moving you question out to its own topic so it get a little more love from the community! ---
**Author:** ![maxb](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/maxb/32/35200_2.png) [@maxb](https://community.thunkable.com/u/maxb)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2020, 5:40pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/can-i-reference-components-by-name/473846/3 "2020-02-19T17:40:00Z")
Good, I remember that @Mark told me they were working on it or just thinking about it. I feel that this would be very powerful to automatize every app and extremely reduce the number of blocks. ---
**Author:** ![paulmw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/22d042/32.png) [@paulmw](https://community.thunkable.com/u/paulmw)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2020, 5:49pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/can-i-reference-components-by-name/473846/4 "2020-02-19T17:49:30Z")
There is still a feature in development that will solve this particular problem, but unfortunately it’s not out yet. I’m guessing it’s 4-6 weeks out, but schedules frequently change, so it might take longer… We’ll create a way for you to add a new property to every button - which should allow you to distinguish between your components and consolidate your code. We’ll have more info when it gets released. ---
**Author:** ![maxb](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/maxb/32/35200_2.png) [@maxb](https://community.thunkable.com/u/maxb)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2020, 5:53pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/can-i-reference-components-by-name/473846/5 "2020-02-19T17:53:00Z")
Yes, that’s what Mark was talking about, but I didn’t think it would take so long 😅, it was almost a year ago 😭 However, better late than never, guess I’ll have to come back later 😄 ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Rogulla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@Michael\_Rogulla](https://community.thunkable.com/u/Michael_Rogulla)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2020, 6:28pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/can-i-reference-components-by-name/473846/6 "2020-02-19T18:28:17Z")
Hi @maxb, maybe this discussion on github helps you? It is about how to add an index to a cloned component. That way, you can click on “pizza”-button or “margherita”-button, get the index and assign an appropriate price: > > > I generated buttons with "Any component -\> clone". Let's say I have created 4 buttons. When I click on one of... ---
**Author:** ![maxb](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/maxb/32/35200_2.png) [@maxb](https://community.thunkable.com/u/maxb)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 7:10pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/can-i-reference-components-by-name/473846/8 "2020-02-21T19:10:36Z")
Hey Michael thank you! it was useful because it gave me the idea to use lists and now it’s working pretty fine! ---
**Author:** ![ioannis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/ioannis/32/146956_2.png) [@ioannis](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ioannis)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 11:40am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/can-i-reference-components-by-name/473846/9 "2024-11-08T11:40:53Z")