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Add Stages to Your App
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by Sarto Jama
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Scenario
You want to add stages into your app. When working through stages in a process, you want to highlight the most useful information for the stage you're currently in.
A great example is a project management app. The project may begin with sales and budget in the planning stage and then focus on milestones and tasks in the production stage.
Requirements
f this your first time creating an app, you'll need to know some basics about adding objects, fields, pages, and views. You can start by reading our Builder Basics section.
Other good resources can be found in our designing the database and building pages sections of the knowledge base.
Steps
In this example, you will be adding stages to a project management app. Those stages will include:
- Planning
- In Production
- Completed
For each stage, you will be focused on a different set of information.
- In the Planning stage, you'll focus on the budget and rates.
- In the In Production stage, you'll focus on tasks, hours, and costs.
- In the Completed stage, you'll focus on summarizing the work done on the project.
All the information will be available on a single project details page, but you'll use display rules and page rules to display only the information relevant to the project's current stage.
Create a Projects Object
In the Schema section of the builder, create an object to store your projects.
For this example, you'll need the following fields:
- The default "Project Name" field (which is automatically added)
- A multiple choice field called "Status" with the following options:
- Planning (make this the default option)
- In Production
- Completed
- A currency field called "Budget"
- A currency field called "Hourly Rate"
Create a Tasks Object
Create an object to store all your Tasks.
For this example, you'll need the following fields:
- The default "Task Name" field (which is automatically added)
- A number field called "Hours"
- A one-to-many connection field to the Projects object called "Project"
- The connection field will allow you to link each Task to one Project and allow you to link each Project to multiple Tasks.
Add Summary Fields
Now go back to the Projects object and add the following fields:
- A sum field called "Total Hours"
- This field will sum up the hours from all Tasks connected to a project
- An equation field called "Total Costs" with the following equation:
- {Total Hours} * {Hourly Rate}
These fields will be used to summarize the results of a completed project.
Create a Projects Page and Table
In the Pages section of the builder, create a new page using the Projects object. You'll choose a table view that includes:
- A link to view more details on each project
- A form for editing each project
- A table that displays Tasks connected to each project
Call the page "Projects":
Prepare the Project Details Page for the Planning Stage
In the Planning stage, you'll focus on viewing the details of the Budget and Hourly Rate for a project.
Hide Summary Fields
On the Project Details page, this means you'll need to hide the following fields because they won't have any information in them yet:
- Total Hours
- Total Costs
To hide those fields, you'll use display rules in the details view.
- Click on the details view on the Projects Details page to edit it.
- Go to the Rules section of the editor.
- Click the Add Rule button:
- Add the following display rule:
- If: "Status" is "Planning"
- Then:
- Hide "Total Hours"
- Hide "Total Costs"
Hide Tasks Table
You'll also need to hide the Tasks table on the Project Details page, because there won't be any Tasks connected to the project yet.
To hide the Tasks table, you'll use a page rule.
- Go to the Rules tab at the top of the Project Details page.
- Click the Add Rule button:
- Add the following page rule:
- When: "Status" is "Planning"
- Action: Hide views
- Views: Click each view to hide:
- "Tasks table"
Prepare the Project Details Page for the In Production Stage
In the In Production stage, you'll focus on viewing the details for tasks, hours, and costs for a project.
Add a Task Form
Since you're focusing on tasks at this stage, you'll want to add a form for adding new tasks to the project.
- On the Project Details page, click the form view option at the top to add a new form.
- Select the "Insert a new Task" option:
Update Page Rule
Now that you've added a new view to the page, you'll need to update the page rule you created in the last step to ensure that the Add Task form doesn't display for projects in the Planning stage.
- Go to the Rules tab at the top of the Project Details page.
- Edit the existing rule to say:
- When: "Status" is "Planning"
- Action: Hide views
- Views: Click each view to hide:
- "Tasks table"
- "Add Task form"
Prepare the Project Details Page for the Completed Stage
In the Completed stage, you'll focus on the Total Hours and Total Costs for a project.
Add a Page Rule
You'll need to use a page rule to hide the Add Task form on the Project Details page, because there won't be any more Tasks added to a completed project.
To add a new page rule:
- Go to the Rules tab at the top of the Project Details page.
- Click the 'Add Rule' button under the first page rule to add another page rule:
- Add the following page rule:
- When: "Status" is "Completed"
- Action: Hide views
- Views: Check each view to hide:
- "Add Task form"
Highlight Summary Fields
So far all of your changes have been made on the Project Details page. But you can also highlight the information for a specific project on the Projects page.
In this stage, you can highlight the summary fields for a completed project by changing the text style and color of the Total Hours and Total Costs fields.
- Click on the Projects table view on the Projects page.
- Hover over the Total Hours field's column and click the edit pencil icon:
- Go to the Display Rules section of the field editor.
- Click the Add Rule button:
- Add the following display rule:
- If: "Status" is "Completed"
- Then:
- Set Text Style [click on "B"]
- Set Background Color [choose a light green color from the color picker]
Finally, repeat those steps for the Total Costs field column and be sure to click the Save Changes button when you're done.
Your Results
Here's how your app will look now:
Extend this Workflow
- Send email notifications to users when a record moves to a new stage
- Add a filter menu to the projects table to see all the projects within each stage more easily