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Hey all,
Just want to make sure I'm structuring my database application properly. I've got a main stack called app which has code to connect to the db, I then have a substack called customers which contains a few scripts relating to retrieving data from the customer table and display results in a grid. When I want to edit a customer, I would like a customer edit screen to pop up in the form of a modal dialog, so am I right in assuming I need to create another substack within app called customer modal or can I do this as a card within the customer substack. To activate the customer modal the user will have to be on a card inthe the customer substack.im just think do I need to create a customer delete substack as well if I want this to be modal?

If I read you correctly, the substack will be the place where all data and its changes are made. This is proper since the mainstack, as the executable, cannot save changes. You do not need to have actual substacks, you can also simply use other stacks as long as they are included in the package build. If you do use substacks, they must be moved to their own stack files in the application builder.

I think I have this right.

But to have modal gadgets, these must themselves be stacks. You cannot make one card in a stack "modal". This is a purely stack style. You can, of course, change the style of any stack, but this is not, I think, what you intended.

Craig Newman