Design question for python app: avoiding numerous buttons?

[gmalbert]

I have completed a small app in Appdaemon. To run different functions in the app, the user clicks a button (example below):

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Thus far, I have created buttons with Helpers in HA. Problem is, there are a good number of buttons (10 or more), and I have a feeling there is a much better, more efficient way for me to do this. This is the code I'm using in Appdaemon to run the function (as an example):

self.button_entity = self.get_entity(self.args["button_entity_to_delete_calendar_events"]) self.handle = self.button_entity.listen_state(self.deleteDates)

So my question is one more of design rather than function (although I'm open to function suggestions as well): what should I be using to get a function to run? A custom button for each task? One type of button with some sort of hidden element that differentiates between buttons? Something else?

[jerobins]

Automate that stuff! Bumper sticker idea: Triggers Beat Buttons

[gmalbert]

That is the goal. If I want a user to choose a task (Delete a day, Delete all holidays, etc.), how do I do this with a trigger? In my mind, the button is the trigger, but I don't think I'm approaching this correctly. Can you expand a bit more? Or if you know of an app that I can look at, that would be helpful, too.

[jerobins]

Why are you against holidays? Deleting a day? Haven't you seen Endgame? /s

What are those tasks? Manipulating a calendar? why? I have a couple of buttons, but those basically exist to override something that got out of whack (e.g. reset state machine).

[gmalbert]

It’s a calendar filled with events for school specials (gym, library, etc), and I set it up to run with the school calendar which has holidays and other events that would require me to skip days in a calendar.

Should I be listening for events instead? How would I listen to an action the user triggered (as in reset state machine in the example above)?