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  • November 6, 2023
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Ingrid_Waeraas

Hey! So I am working with a table where I want to have a head “checkbox” which check all checkboxes below the table. When I am checking the head I want to view a text that said how many items is checked. If I uncheck a check box in the table I want the text to disappear.

Anyone done something similar or could give me some advice how to reach this goal?

Best answer by Nate_G

@Ingrid_Waeraas There are probably multiple ways to go about this one, but here is one approach where I used variables, conditionals, and variants.

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Nate_G
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  • November 7, 2023

@Ingrid_Waeraas There are probably multiple ways to go about this one, but here is one approach where I used variables, conditionals, and variants.

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Ingrid_Waeraas
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  • November 8, 2023

This is a great example! Thank you so much! I was wondering how it would be if i wanted to add a indeterminate state? Do I then need a variable that is Number = # indeterminate = # cell-counter ?

Sorry if it’s a dumb question 😅


Nate_G
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  • November 8, 2023

No worries 🙂

I’m not sure what you mean by “indeterminate state” — will you not know how many cells will be in a row?

In my example, I set the “total-cells” number variable to the number of cells in the row (6), and then I set the “cell-counter” equal to “total-cells”, then I will subtract or add from “cell-counter” depending on the number of selected cells. So if you wanted to add more cells to a row you’d need to update the “total-cells” to the total number of cells.


Ingrid_Waeraas
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  • November 8, 2023

Yes, so I am making a prototype for a pagination example for tables with checkboxes. So when you have for example 100 items in a table, but shown over several pages. But have only selected the first 10 so then i would like a indeterminate state (a checkbox with a line instead of filled/checkmark) 🙂


Nate_G
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  • November 9, 2023

Interesting 🤔. So would you have a “select all” option for every “page” of the table?

Do you have any visual examples of what you are trying to accomplish?


Ingrid_Waeraas
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  • November 9, 2023

Yeah kinda, So we’ll do it quite similar to google mail. Where you get a link button you can press to select all remaining. See my example . The blue text is the link button 🙂


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Nate_G
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  • November 9, 2023

Thanks for sharing the examples.

What happens when you click the indeterminate state checkbox?

It definitely gets a lot trickier adding the pagination, selecting/deselecting individual items, having a counter, and selecting all or removing all.

You may just have to just mock up different stages you click through, versus making it fully functional.


Ingrid_Waeraas
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  • November 10, 2023

Yeah, I finally got it that way I wanted it to work 😃 Used your logic but added a indeterminate state to the components and stated that when prototyping with the variables. And also did what you said here but only within the component so I only have one frame that does all 🙂 I work with a payroll system so we need a bit complicated pagination when working with very big tables.

So in the prototype now the indeterminate state does nothing. By pressing it you would select or deselect all items i think.

Thank you for your help again! It was very helpful and now I understand the variables a bit more than I did before. Hopefully in the future Figma will make it so we can make even more realistic prototype easier 😃


Nate_G
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  • November 10, 2023

That’s awesome, I’m glad you got it to work!