R shiny - last clicked button id

Question

I have multiple action buttons, on which i want to show different select Inputs and I want to know last clicked button id, how can I do that? When I use

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Answer 1

You can do it by adding JS

smthing like

$(document).on('click', '.needed', function () {
                              Shiny.onInputChange('last_btn',this.id);
                             });

Example ( add class needed to btn if you want to control not all btn)

 ui <- shinyUI(fluidPage(

  titlePanel("Track last clicked Action button"),
  tags$head(tags$script(HTML("$(document).on('click', '.needed', function () {
                                Shiny.onInputChange('last_btn',this.id);
                             });"))),

  sidebarLayout(
    sidebarPanel(
      actionButton("first", "First",class="needed"),
      actionButton("second", "Second",class="needed"),
      actionButton("third", "Third",class="needed"),
      actionButton("save", "save"),
      selectInput("which_","which_",c("first","second","third"))
    ),

    mainPanel(

      textOutput("lastButtonCliked")
    )
  )
))


server <- shinyServer(function(input, output,session) {
  observeEvent(input$save,{
    updateSelectInput(session,"which_",selected = input$last_btn)
  })
  output$lastButtonCliked=renderText({input$last_btn})

})
# Run the application 
shinyApp(ui = ui, server = server)