This is really big feature that Coda is missing, and its really strange for me because I haven’t run into similar limitation on other platforms.
It makes managing and developing and growing documents and workspaces really, really painful. Most of time time its absolutely impossible to envision where each page will go (sometimes you want to move to other document, or you form totally separate docu for some sub part and split documents, etc.) or what will exactly go where or need to go in future.
In my time (which is not that long) of using Coda even for my private needs I run into this problem multiple times, and it created a lot of additional work and time spent, where simple copy/move page would do all the job. I don’t even want to think about problems in slowly migrating my company to Coda and having to redo and spent countless hours in future as more and more people move to platform and documents and pages start to be more complex.
This is really a one (maybe the biggest at this point) limiting feature for us to more heavily invest into platform and move most of our operations here.
Is there any information is this at all in roadmap in some closer future or is it at all feature that is planned? Any info would be useful
Hi @Marko_Petrovic
It’s not probably the answer you were looking for but when you copy a table coda copy it as a csv formatted text, so if you basically do this in the original page in DocA:
cmd+a, cmd+c (or cmd+x if you want to move the page) (or ctrl, or select all and cut)
And then you just paste it (cmd+v) in DocB you get the same result you were looking for.
Table keeps their interrelationship and it’s already in there.
This solution have the only limit that in some cases a copy cannot be done because items are too “heavy”, but it’s rare and if they are template maybe they are empty…
Also, if some relationship was built with table in other pages those will break if also those table won’t be copied (or more easily put all the tables you need in one page and copy-paste everything).
Then, ultimately, in the long run i think that a drag and drop feature to copy a section from a doc to another will be a cool feature to add, also if not so felt by me personally.
The best part of this community is anyway to collect various suggestions or feedback, i’m sure that more Makers have faced problems similar to yours so let’s wait for some other ideas
I’m a noob yet have already read this same suggestions multiple times, but I just can’t get it to work. With a bunch of different content from templates. And neither can others it seems.
Tables get broken, links and layout gets broken, I don’t know if this worked before, but it certainly doesn’t seem to be now, at least for me.
Does this not work for free accounts?
Hi Morgan,
Could you share more detail of what you are trying to do? Preferably with an example doc?
Ok, I just logged back in to check again and share, and before I got to sharing it worked.
I did exactly the same as before ctrl-a in doc, ctrl-v in another doc (which I tested multiple time), yet this time it worked, giving me the option to make pasted content a “view” or “duplicate” data, which is ideal.
I have no idea what was wrong before, but I’ll guess at cache issues.
Can anyone speak to Pros/Cons of the data/db per-page approach of Coda, vs Notion approach?
Any plan to add a “move to” type option for content, pages, blocks a la Notion?
Hi @Morgan_Benjamin , sorry i’m late but i’m happy you’ve found a simple solution
I support your suggestion of adding a “move to” functions, i’ve had in the past some problem of not being able to copy and paste some tables due to their size (i would say more related to the fact that they were connected with other tables, for dropdowns and formulas, 'cause also with an empty table it was too big to be moved), maybe @coda-team could help us understanding this behaviour and give us some insight for the future
P.s. Hi @Piet_Strydom , how did you get that pro-looking edu badge? i want it too
Hi Mario,
I attended the Coda DOCtorate course, that ended last week. It was called the “inaugural DOCtorate” course, so keep your eye open for the next one.
It is well worth it. Takes six weeks, on-line.
Regards
Piet
oh! @Piet_Strydom i remember i’ve read something related to this in the past! Beh nice work!
I feel like i’m an advanced user so maybe a “basic” course would not be in my interest, how did you find it? from what i can see in your profile you’re kind of expert too, could it help for counseling services in your opinion?
thanks for the answer! I know this is not the right place to talk about this but opening a new topic seems exagerated! in case we can continue in PM if you think this could be better!
I’ll respond to you from the original DOCtorate invite.
P