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# Database Quick Reply Buttons Action

Use this action to display multiple dynamic buttons based on a Xenioo Database collection query.

![](/files/X1jCBumSOyPVIaM1eSgg)

### Settings

The action uses the following settings:

| Setting        | Description                                                                                    | [Parsed](/actions-and-operations/dynamic-parsing.md) |
| -------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------- |
| Payload        | The unique identifier of the button that can be retrieved when the user clicks it.             | :white\_check\_mark:                                 |
| Text           | The text of the quick reply button. This is the text of the button.                            | :white\_check\_mark:                                 |
| Alternate Text | Text to be used on any text-only channel (e.g. WhatsApp)                                       | :white\_check\_mark:                                 |
| Expression     | Standard Xenioo expression that can be used to trigger this button from standard users message | :white\_check\_mark:                                 |
| Image          | The url of the image that will be displayed on the button                                      | :white\_check\_mark:                                 |

### Remarks

This action will display as many buttons as the records returned by the current [Database Query](/database/database-api-access/query-collection-1.md).

The dynamic contents of each button can be set using standard dynamic parsing variables referencing the **cursor\_current\_record** variable. If, as an example, we would like to display the field "ButtonText" of our current collection query inside the Text of our buttons we would just specify it like this:

```
{{cursor_current_record.ButtonText}}
```

Any other current variable is of course supported in all parsed fields.

As the user clicks any of the buttons created by this action, the **last\_command** variable will be set with the Payload value or, if empty, with the Text value.

{% hint style="warning" %}
[Telegram ](/basic-concepts/publishing/channels/telegram.md)does not allow buttons to be displayed without any preceding text. Please make sure to have at [least one text bubble](/actions-and-operations/content/xenioo.bots.actions.base.textaction.md) before any quick button or no button will be displayed.
{% endhint %}

### Trigger

On Click. This action will trigger any child operation as the user clicks the associated chat button.

### Variables

This action produces the following variables after being triggered:

| Variable      | Description                                    |
| ------------- | ---------------------------------------------- |
| last\_command | The parsed content of the Button Title setting |

### Availability

Channel specific availability follows the table below:

| Channel          | Availability                                                                                                                                             |
| ---------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Facebook         | Fully Available. A maximum of 11 buttons can be displayed at once.                                                                                       |
| WhatsApp         | Fully Available.                                                                                                                                         |
| Telegram         | Fully Available. Can only be displayed after a [text bubble](/actions-and-operations/content/xenioo.bots.actions.base.textaction.md) has been displayed. |
| Web              | Fully Available                                                                                                                                          |
| Alexa            | **Not Available**                                                                                                                                        |
| Google Assistant | *Available only on Screen enabled devices.Other devices will ignore the content.*                                                                        |
| Slack            | Fully Available                                                                                                                                          |
| API              | Fully Available                                                                                                                                          |

This action can be used only inside interactions and not as child of other actions.