Alert Sync / Force Refresh?

[Michael_Armani]

Suggested: Force browser refresh? Alerts bell refresh?

Just noting, I appreciate the way Coda works, and that fast/offline access are at odds with instant/good sync.

I see problems across different computers and sessions, where syncing just doesn’t happen without refresh. A very common occurrence is with alerts, where it can be seen 3+ times:

1. where for example the Email is clicked, this doesn’t do anything to the alerts bell
2. the alerts bell has to be clicked to show it as read
3. on a different computer/session, the browser needs a refresh to the window to make old alert bell notices go away.

This obviously goes against the foundation of coda, which is seamless/enjoyable interaction with lots of data and closing the loop on user-user interactions quickly.

[Jean_Pierre_Traets]

Hi @Michael_Armani,

Welcome in the community, a place you can learn and exchange knowldge with users and Codans, all with different backgrounds and experiences.

To be able to give feedback on your post, a good practice is to share a copy of your document, where you make clear your questions and expectations. (Obviously you should replace sensative info)

Accordingly the community will try to help you out and in case of a bug the Codans will assign to the right person.

I see in your below post you are very pleased with Coda.

Immense thank you for CODA & How it affected my business/life

Hello everyone, and especially the developers @ CODA. Here is an immense thank you from me (the CEO) and my team, who run a large 3D printing manufacturing company in the USA. Our business is exceptionally technical, fast changing, low margin, and generally immensely complex. This involves both numbers (databases) communications (well presented write ups) equally. When communications in such a company breakdown, the damage and costs are insurmountable. We have been looking for a solution, …

I am also happy user, although when it comes to speed, especially when the bases become bigger, the environment becomes less reliable. I know the Codans are working on this. See this post:

Performance with a large table

Dear @Glenn_Jaume and @mallika More and more users start to have negative experiences when creating bigger projects! To be honest me too, unfortunattely I have to use Airtable for bigger projects. As you can see, I am an active user of Coda and this community and we would really appriciate some more clarity when we can expect Coda to tackle this subject. Obviously it’s a As always, thanks following up this subject. //JP

Enjoy Coda,
//JP

[Michael_Armani]

Thanks Jean

I’d be happy to share the database but it will take a lot of time to strip the sensitive data, so for now i wanted to get some critical comments and suggestions out there and see if a consensus can form to help Coda’s team focus on the most important usability features in the mean time; At this point there is no problem with the documents themselves, they’re fantastic, and still running fine.

Most of the concerns I’ve posted come from deep experience (100 hours/2 weeks) with one big doc, and sharing among 50-100 people recently come down to issues that are obvious psychology/visual discrepancies compared to the otherwise extremely streamlined Coda. Hopefully this will continue to be received well without sharing the doc just yet.

I love airtable, but its just not the same. Its unbelievable coda edged it out so aggressively now that i never want to use airtable, but i have to to for the ability to handle large data and granular permissions, for now