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Can custom actions call other custom actions?

Danny

3 days ago

Wondering if custom actions can call each other. Using the workflows to call other custom actions is getting a little messy at times.
Erik Beuschau

3 days ago

If your custom action has a callback, you can call another action from that event yes. You can also call multiple actions in reaction to an event (they run sequentially), or use workflows to structure reusable combinations of action calls.
Danny

2 days ago

Right, but not directly from within the custom action code, correct? Only on the callback from the triggerActionEvent?

For example, I'm finding that I have multiple custom actions that need to reference the same helper function and so I'm copying and pasting into each of them, but ideally I could just have that function in one place and refer to it from within each of the custom actions.
@Danny
Right, but not directly from within the custom action code, correct? Only on the callback from the triggerActionEvent?

For example, I'm finding that I have multiple custom actions that need to reference the same helper function and so I'm copying and pasting into each of them, but ideally I could just have that function in one place and refer to it from within each of the custom actions.
Erik Beuschau

2 days ago

I see. This has not been a limitation for us when working on the toddle editor. In general, we try to keep the number of custom actions small when possible. What is your use case for a shared custom action?
Danny

2 days ago

Interesting. I could and probably should use a formula instead. Can you access global formulas from the custom actions?
Danny

2 days ago

I’m creating an html canvas with panning, zooming, etc and finding that it’s much easier to manage in JavaScript rather than through native toddle formulas which is why I’ve so far opted to use the custom actions
Erik Beuschau

2 days ago

That makes sense. Did you check how Andreas built this package? https://zoompane.toddle.site/
Danny

2 days ago

Oh man, I wish I found this days ago. I'll take a look! Thank you 😄
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