Database Quick Reply Buttons Action

Use this action to display multiple dynamic buttons based on a MyLINK Connect Database collection query.

Settings

The action uses the following settings:

Setting	Description	Parsed
Payload	The unique identifier of the button that can be retrieved when the user clicks it.	✅
Text	The text of the quick reply button. This is the text of the button.	✅
Alternate Text	Text to be used on any text-only channel (e.g. WhatsApp)	✅
Expression	Standard MyLINKConnect expression that can be used to trigger this button from standard users message	✅
Image	The url of the image that will be displayed on the button	✅

Remarks

This action will display as many buttons as the records returned by the current Database Query.

The dynamic contents of each button can be set using standard dynamic parsing variables referencing the cursor_current_record variable. If, as an example, we would like to display the field "ButtonText" of our current collection query inside the Text of our buttons we would just specify it like this:

{{cursor_current_record.ButtonText}}

Any other current variable is of course supported in all parsed fields.

As the user clicks any of the buttons created by this action, the last_command variable will be set with the Payload value or, if empty, with the Text value.

Telegram does not allow buttons to be displayed without any preceding text. Please make sure to have at least one text bubble before any quick button or no button will be displayed.

Trigger

On Click. This action will trigger any child operation as the user clicks the associated chat button.

Variables

This action produces the following variables after being triggered:

Variable	Description
last_command	The parsed content of the Button Title setting

Availability

Channel specific availability follows the table below:

Channel	Availability
Facebook	Fully Available. A maximum of 11 buttons can be displayed at once.
WhatsApp	Fully Available.
Telegram	Fully Available. Can only be displayed after a text bubble has been displayed.
Web	Fully Available
Alexa	Not Available
Google Assistant	Available only on Screen enabled devices.Other devices will ignore the content.
Slack	Fully Available
API	Fully Available

This action can be used only inside interactions and not as child of other actions.