Passing pass by reference

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Originally posted as Get a component's id from its event handler - How do I? - Retool Forum

  • triggeredById provides a string value, but there seems to be no way to dynamically get a reference to the control (as in document.getElementById()).
  • Additionally triggeredById seems to be quite limited in where it's available. Specifically, it's not available in the success/failure part of a query.
  • What I'd ideally like to do is be able to set a custom property (call it "tag" or "userInfo" or "context") on a component (e.g. button1.userInfo = "cancel_emergency"), then be able to look up this value from a query (e.g. var cmdName = triggeredByComponent.userInfo).

I can work around the first part with tooltipText and the second part with a component ID to custom value mapping in a temporary state variable, but it would be nicer to do it more directly.

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