Action buttons always visible

Action buttons are great, but our users don’t always know they are there, because you have to hover over them in order to see them. I understand why. It would be awesome if there was some way to get the functionality of an action button, that would be always visible.
Use case is: creating a link from one record to the “create” form of a linked record, with prefilled information. You can do that with record buttons, but I want to have a more definitive button. In order to do so, I have to create a formula field in that table, that accepts the noloco ID as the prefill, and then use that field as the button link. It works, its just a workaround.
Potential solution would be to conditionally choose the visibility of the button, ie “on hover” or “always”

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Second this; there are some occasions where this would be super helpful for me

LOVE this. I had a request at one point to have a button displayed in a table’s column (thankfully Noloco allows for this) but the issue is that those buttons are pretty much just URL-based. They aren’t action buttons fundamentally.

So this would be super helpful!

Just come across the need for this again. It’s when I have a single record on a page, and want the user to be able to add a related record. So adding my vote to this for a second time!

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If you only have a single record, would you not just use an on-page action button, or a details block?

Usually when this is required it’s a sign that something else isn’t optimal

My question is, is there a direct link from the parent to this record, or can there be multiple linked records?

Just commenting on my specific use-case, but say you had line items related to an invoice. Being able to toggle action buttons for records to be always visible would allow for my users to see that they can duplicate, add, or remove a line item.

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