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Hello 🙂

I'm building an app with a vertical nav menu on the left which is based on a component .

This component use galleries populated with a "Set Table" in the OnStart property of the app.

Everything works as expected, navigation is working well, pages are populated in the gallery of the component which can then be added to all my pages.

Before I started using a component I was manually adding my "hand crafted" menu on each pages, which was not a ideal situation. However, since then I was using a "notification" badge on menu item which reflected the number of items that was in the gallery displayed on each page. This notification badge was using CountRow() to extract the value which then was used in the text field of the notification badge like so :

Want I want now is being able to pass this information to the component for each menu items. I was thinking of adding a new field in the table of the OnStart() property but this doesn't seems to work. I would like to be able to add, in the gallery item of the component, a button which text property could contains the value I pass in the "gallery" field of the table :

Example of my idea :

Is there any way to achieve this ?

Thanks 🙂

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I was able to make this work but it seems that it only works when I'm on the dev interface.

If I play the app from another account, the value from "CountRows" are not passed to the component.

I can still add my notification badges manually en each pages but it would way more practical to have it in the component...

Edit : so for now, my solution is to set some variables in OnStart() like this : Set(varName;CountRows(gallery_Name.AllItems))

For an obscur reason, those variables are not populated with OnStart(). I tried playing the app and manually trigger OnStart with random success.

If I set the variables on the OnVisible() of a Screen, it works.

It is a workaround but still not a viable solution of my original problem since I have to set each variables regularly (via OnVisible() or OnSubmit() to be sure to have up to date value.

I'm still looking for a way to pass CountRows dinamicaly to my component...