Ability to move an action up or down in scenes

I’m starting to have scenes with around ten actions, or even more.
When I reach the eleventh, I tell myself « Ah I could add that…, but I’d need to put it in second position. »

At the moment, we have to delete actions in order to add one and re-enter them.

If we had the ability to move them up or down in the same way as the boxes when editing the dashboard, that would be great.

I don’t have a vote left, but yes, I agree — that would simplify complex scenes when you want to add an action.

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Same here, I got so mad so many times for the same reason!
You have all my votes :sweat_smile:

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I’ve often encountered the same issue! I second that!

Same here, with deletion when they’re no longer used .. just to keep things tidy! :blush:
+1

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With @_Will_71 and @lmilcent, that makes 12 votes.
I didn’t think there would be that many.

So my vote has already been counted, because I deleted one on another issue that I considered less important.

I don’t think you can count the « fake » votes
It would be a mess otherwise ^^.
I think it’s better to prioritize those votes by removing them and revoting like @_Will_71 did :slight_smile:

Voting intentions :sweat_smile:

I’ve voted!
(I withdrew another vote :man_shrugging:)

Exactly, I advise everyone to do a little « review » of their votes to re-prioritize them. Removing less crucial features to put the vote on another one helps a lot :wink:

To see your votes, just go to « My votes »: Demande de fonctionnalités - Gladys Assistant community

The number of votes per person is intentionally limited, otherwise everyone would vote for everything and we’d be back to square one: impossible to prioritize :smiley:

Can we use the same solution?

To make sure we’re talking about the same thing, when we talk about moving an action up or down.

For you an action is :

Or this :

If it’s the 1st option, the goal would be to move an action from one « big » box to another « big » box, so I understand the use of a drag-and-drop library.

If it’s the 2nd option, I would rather see an « arrow » system to move the actions. And

For my part, I have only one action per block, so I’d say solution 2.

Personally, I’d say the first.
For a house-check scenario, I request the latest status of the openings; there are about ten of them in the same box.
If I forgot an action before checking the status, I have to re-enter everything.
Ultimately, both solutions can be justified.

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Thanks for looking into it.

@Tlse-vins I would say your case is also number 2, because you want to add an action box before your status-check action box.

Case #1 would be to extract one of your verification actions into another action box!

Anyway, that’s how I understand it.

It’s a bit of both for me: you need to be able to move actions via drag and drop between action blocks, and you need to be able to create/delete action blocks.

If you want to work on it, I’ll dump here the state of my research since I’ve already started experimenting on the topic :slight_smile:

I tested all these things (originally it’s for the dashboard to re-organize the boxes Trello-style):

React-DND looks really good, supports multiple drag-and-drop input sources (mouse on PC and touch on mobile), and it works very well with Preact — I think it’s a good solution!

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I just edited a scene with more than 20 actions and removed some.
But as a result I have empty blocks remaining.

2 ideas:

  • have an X to delete empty or filled blocks.
  • remove empty blocks with reorganization of the blocks and renumbering when saving.
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And as a complement: add a « + » to be able to add a step between two actions.

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