Next to setting a title for a column, it would be great to be able to add a description field to each column.
In this you could set
explanation for how to use this column (handy for multiple users)
why you created a this column for future reference
explanation of how your formula is set up (handy if you have to go back to it months later)
this would be viewable as a call-out
in google sheets you can add a comment to each field, so I use this in the title row
I’m looking for something similar
Now i need to write everything in the doc itself, or create long column titles (which is not handy in formulas)
explain what a column mean to users (Now i need to make the title long)
a secundaire description of why that column is there and how the formula works would be personally interesting (users don’t need to see this)
we have tables with a lot of formulas and sometimes 30 columns.
sometimes I created columns to make calculations simpler (instead of doing everything in one formula) to speed up the document. But now I sometimes wonder why I created that specific column
expand a row to the dialog view and then click on Edit Layout
when you click on a column in that view you will see the following items you can edit
long name for the column
description text
its not ideal (a little bit of a hidden feature) but we have used it when creating complex tables for clients where they will have to maintain them and add features in the future
Hi, I’m Paul, a software engineer at Coda. Thanks for sharing this feature request with us — I’m happy to announce that we’ve now implemented column descriptions in Coda!
Within the column options menu, select the “Add description” option to add helpful context or reference notes about a given column. We hope this makes using tables in Coda smoother for you and your teams — let us know what you think!
Can we have “long titles” (i.e. column name overrides) just like we can have those in detail layouts pretty please?
Use case: I want to name my columns in English so that I can write formulas without switching languages, but for display purposes I want to show the titles in Ukrianian. And not just that — it’d be generally useful to be able to override column names in user-facing table views.
Great idea @Paul_Danyliuk , thanks for your clear explanation of the use case! I’ve shared this to the rest of the team to be considered for future work.
Thank you for such a useful improvement!
It would be very cool if we could use a formula in the description with a link to a specific item in a specific table, so that we could maintain a dictionary table and the descriptions in all relevant columns would be updated automatically.
