Drop Down before File Browser tool

isacaso18

Hello, I am working on creating an app for my work company and I need it set up a certain way.

First the Drop Down should appear, and depending on the choice you choose from the drop down, 3 file browsers should appear (there are 3 file browsers per drop down option) and then after the files are uploaded, the radio button should appear (weekly/biweekly). Is there a way to get that order? Or is it just possible to have all the app analytic functions in the same tab?

    So Ideally the first and only thing that the End User should see is the "Choose an Account" drop down option, after they choose they have the option to upload files and that is the only thing they can see. After the files are uploaded they hit next and are asked if its weekly or biweekly.

Help!

TheOC

hi @isacaso18 
I believe your best bet may be a chained app - this allows you to have different layers of interface show up after the user hits run. You can chain multiple apps together, so you could build it this way. I would suggest this may be slightly clunky - as by the sounds of things, you would need multiple.

An alternative, is the https://help.alteryx.com/developer-help/html-gui-sdk 

This allows you to build the configuration window for a tool. Granted, this wouldn't be an analytic app, but if looking to deploy in designer alone, this could be a method of allowing for a graphical interface to be used for a tool.

If you are looking to host this on your Alteryx server - you can build a HTML page, and use the Alteryx Server API (https://gallery.alteryx.com/api-docs/) to run the workflow. This allows you to setup a visual interface exactly as you want, as it is built in HTML by yourself.

Otherwise, i believe you are fairly limited on this front. The interface tools do have 'collapse group when deselected' on radio buttons and checkboxes, which allows for elements to be closed of the interface, but this functionality does not carry across all tools within the toolset. I would recommend suggesting it in the ideas  pagehttps://community.alteryx.com/t5/Alteryx-Designer-Ideas/idb-p/product-ideas , if this is what you need. If you do so, let me know, and i'll be sure to go like your idea.

Cheers,
TheOC