The only way I found to change the text was by mapping it to a column in my Google Source Sheet which is most certainly “not” what I want. I wish for my images to be displayed without any description below. Can this be done?
Hi @muneer, I have decided to start again as I got very confused after a while. I have removed all conditions as I do not to check that a record exists.
There reason there were two DVL’s was because I renamed the existing one and forgot to change the blocks (Doh!)
Theoretically, my blocks now (pictured below) should remove “Description” from my app but it doesn’t.
Also, I have left the “row_id” blank because I don’t know what to put insert there. I have also removed all “initialize app variable” blocks because I am now not sure if I need them.
This should be simple so why am I finding it hard?
Also, the text colours for the Title and Subtitle wouldn’t change when I use their respective colour blocks.
Hi @muneer, I’ve just had an idea. Would it not be easier for me to create a blank column in my Source Google Sheet and then map it to the Description?
Hi @muneer, I know it’s not the professional way to do things but adding the “Blank” column in the Source Google Sheet has removed the default template Description.
When you create a new project, there’s a check box to “try the new interface”. If you leave that unchecked, your project will use the snap to place interface. There is no way to convert from drag and drop to snap to place.
A new feature was lately added to the DVL but I could not figure out how to use it although from the name of the feature it should be for such situations.
HI @muneer, even after starting over several times, I still fail to grasp the concept behind the link you sent to me (Thunkable)
I understand that the links is to show how to highlight a “click selection” but I cannot seem to transpose it into a way to use the row id to change my “Title and Subtitle text” colour to all white. I first tried it using the straightforward “When screen opens” block with “Change colour” blocks (below)
Then I tried various connotations using a function and as you can see below I have ended up with complete chaos.
Hi @muneer, when you say “row ID” are those the green blocks, or can you use aniy blocks for the row Id? I think this might be where I am getting confused. I only used the “When DVL click” blocks because the had a row ID block attached.
I can see any other way of using row ID.
What exactly is an internal ID if it is not a row ID? I am really lost here.
Could you give me an example of an internal ID and how to create one?
This is where you get the internal ID
When you use the ID internal column of the table you are using the internal IDs which are a string of letters and numbers.
Ahh I see now, so “ID” = internal ID. So I assign anything to ID, for example, in a Google Sheet, it will use the hidden alphanumeric text that Google assigns to its row/ records instead of the row1, row2…
that the general sees. I understand now.
Do I create “ID” as an app variable? I can’t seem to find it in the blocks.
By the way, @muneer, as I said previously I got round the description by creating a “Blank” column.
Just to clarify, will I need to used the internal ID to change the DVL text colour anyway?
Sorry for being repetitive, my mental illness does make this difficult for me.
The green block row id in the DVL blocks actually holds the internal ID for that row. You can assign it to a label to see that it is not a simple running counter.
