Loving both formulas and action buttons so far. Would it be possible to use the same power of Javascript in action button scripts in formula calculations? I guess it doesn’t really make sense to mix and match the current formula methods and Javascript, so it possibly have to be a toggle (and lossl…

I’m curious to hear what functions you need to create that you can’t currently achieve with formulas…

I suppose, that for your case you can divide the process into two parts - flexible one reached with Formulas, and static one with the Button. I am curious about the certain Use Case as well, looks pretty curious :wink:

I think two examples come to mind: I could be wrong about this, but I think in formulas you can’t apply Max to non-arrays? So e.g. Max(some_field.value, 3) can’t be done, which means it needs to be done as if(some_field.value > 3, some_field.value, 3). That’s not too bad there, but when the calcul…

I think for recurring dates yes that’s right. But more generally I don’t think so: I think it would become a mess if formulas had to replicate the full flexibility of e.g. Javascript (well, not including dependencies and external calls let’s say). Even on the recurring dates, that was just one simp…

Just to update on this: I had actually set the button to update all entities of that type: if you clicked the button on any entity, it would update all of them. The reasoning was so that I wouldn’t have to click a huge amount of times to have all entities with updated fields. This was working grea…

Not a great permanent solution or one that pertain to the topic, but if you really need to, another option is to use their API from outside Fibery. I started working on my own Fibery client to make interaction much easier, and I am currently using some of its basic features. It needs a re-write sin…

I think you’re right @Haslien , that’s likely the best solution. In some respects it’ll be better than an action button for these situations since I can run it on a schedule automatically.

Hi! Your requests sound curious!:face_with_monocle: Could you please share with us your case? Btw, if you share your script with us, our developer will have a look and maybe advice smth :slight_smile:

Since you brought it up, would definitely like to see some native Recurring Dates handling. One of my big reasons for being in Fibery is ease of doing workarounds for things like Recurring, which is something you have to use formulas and workarounds to achieve in all of Airtable/Notion/Coda. Cheer…

[REJECTED] Allow Javascript in Formulas

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Chr1sG September 8, 2020, 7:48am 5

Sounds like a deficiency in the available functions in formulas (and elsewehere?) rather than a requirement for scripting per se.
FWIW I noted that recurring dates has been mentioned by others previously:

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[REJECTED] Allow Javascript in Formulas

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