Tip of the Week: Tidy up long action lists

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Once an app or flow passes a few dozen actions, finding the right one in the action editor turns into a lot of scrolling.

The tip

You can sort actions into collapsible groups just by naming them. Put a group name and a / in front of an action’s name, and Appfarm Create moves it into that group. There’s no separate group feature to manage. It all comes from the slash.

How to

  1. Rename an action from Save to Task/Save. It now sits in a collapsible group called Task.
  2. Give related actions the same Task/ prefix to add them to the group.
  3. Or drag an action onto an existing group. The group name is added to the action’s name for you, and you can then rename it to something cleaner, for example Task/Open dialog.

When it’s useful

Group actions by object class (Event/Save, Event/Delete) or by the part of the app they belong to. It pairs well with a naming convention, so the whole team finds things in the same place.

Good to know

  • Grouping is based entirely on the / in the action’s name.
  • You can nest groups with more slashes, like Task/Dialogs/Open, but personally I wouldn’t go deeper than one level: one / per action name.
  • To move an action out, remove the prefix or drag it out. A group disappears when it no longer contains any actions.

Read more: Actions: Grouping actions – Appfarm Docs

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Thanks! I did not know this was available in Create :smiley:

Keep ´em coming!