As you start building apps with Tulip, you’ll notice there are a lot of tips and tricks to help you build faster and more efficiently.
Below are some great tips that have been posted by the Community for you to check out!
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Tips and Tricks for Building Tulip Apps - @danielpomeranz (with some additional tips posted in the comments from @thorsten.langner, @David2, @k.ober)
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Better Tab Names - Chrome Tab Modifier - This tip from @Pete_Hartnett is helpful if you often have many tabs open in Chrome with different Tulip tables, apps, or connectors and want the names to reflect what is what!
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Quick tips - Autoincrement table records - When updating table records, you may want to auto-increment the record ID instead of using a random string. This video from @freedman shows you how!
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Using Values In One Single Select Menu to Dynamically Populate Values in a Second Single Select Menu (Part 1) & Using Values in One Single Select to Populate Values in A Second Single Select Menu (Part 2: Tulip API) If you are looking to use values from one single select to dynamically populate values in another single select, there are 2 neat ways to do this, both demonstrated in these threads from @John
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Looping can be really helpful if you need to go through a table and bulk update records (such as a status of work orders) and there are 2 main ways to accomplish looping:
- For non-GXP Tulip users, there is a custom looping widget in the Tulip library that is great to use and is explained more in this thread Looping in Tulip Apps just got EASY by @Pete_Hartnett
- For GXP Tulip users, we advise not using any custom code due to validation requirements, so instead you can use step looping as demonstrated in this thread Quick tips - Looping! by @freedman
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The Tulip Library also has a collection of quick tips here Explore the Library | Tulip. that cover a variety of topics, so check that out!