Dodeca: Turn on Auto Build button by default or hide it entirely

A customer request came in the other day asking if it’s possible to turn theĀ Auto build button on by default. You can see this button next to the green build button in this screenshot:

A Dodeca view with Auto on turned on by default

Validating in our view that the Auto on button was indeed on by default

Given a default set of toolbars that ship with Dodeca, this button typically starts in the “off” state. In case you’re not familiar, the effect when it’s on is that any time you change an item in a selector, the current view will be rebuilt. This can make it really convenient to browse through different views of data without having to press the build button (you can see this in the video at the end of this article). It’s just one of those usability things that makes interacting with data just that much more fluid.

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