Hey,
this is a Screenshot of the Bettermentâs Template. The states âin progressâ and âin complianceâ are visible, even without a card in it.
When I make a Card View, it always hides the groups without any cards in it.
How can I achive, that empty groups are always visible in Card view?
You do this in the table view. Go in arrange and manage groups (right click on a group), then you have to pin the groups to make them permanent. Go back to card view.
This has been bugged since a long time (itâs not always working, weird) and I always wanted a good card menu to be able to do this along other parameters instead of having to go back to take view. But it seems itâs actually working quite well now.
Iâve never seen that menu before 
thanks a lot @tomavatars! This should definitely be an option of the card view or even default.
Thanks for raising @Daniel_Stieber (and for the quick solve @tomavatars!). Definitely something we need to make clearer in the UI. Youâll also note that this works slightly differently for Lookup and Select List column formats:
Pinning is available for columns not tied to a validated list (as in a Text or Number formatted column). In Lookup / Select List cases it shows up as above.
Hope that helps.
Thanks Evan!
I had it like in your example. These group option buttons were clear than, just the way to get to them wasnât.
I guess Iâd expect that whole arrange menu or at least a button to it in the group/sort settings for every table & view.
@evan I just found this options for the lookup and itâs a great way to auto populate a table with new values from another table. But Iâm now trying to find a way to filter those values when you choose âshow all groupsâ. Do you have a solution?
@tomavatars do you mean you only want to show a subset of the groups in the table youâve created? If itâs a lookup column itâs all or nothing â either only showing groups with values, or showing all of them regardless of the filter criteria. That is an interesting case though - UI would get a bit tricky given âshow allâ would have to be qualified with âthat meet the tables filter criteriaâ.
Whatâs the use case?
@evan itâs about a voting table.
I have a data table with video games titles.
I have my voting table with groups for game titles as lookup and groups for users. Each title has a link column, a state column (played or to play) and a scale column for one user.
If I donât show all values, I have to manually push the new titles from the data table with the help of buttons (which is already a great solution).
Using show all allows me to auto populate the voting table but I would like to filter like : show/hide all blank rows in order to see which entries are or are not voted per users.
Thanks for the context! I think your current solution is the best option currently but will capture this as feedback for our next round of grouping work.
Thanks @evan
I really believe that you can add much wonders to groups!! I feel that itâs only the beginning of it.
Hi, my card view is only showing 2 out of 5 columns. There no longer seems to be an option to âShow all groupsâ or âShow only groups with valuesâ. It seems stuck on âShow only groups with valuesâ.
Very frustrating - it seems like such an obvious requirement - the ability to use cards like a kanban, and change state by dragging into an empty state.
Dear @Richard_Browbek,
Welcome in the community 
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I created a dummy doc with card view and you are right, the option to âShow all groupsâ or âShow only groups with valuesâ seems not available anymore.
The only thing that comes in my mind is to create a new view and make it a simple table view, then to add âfakeâ values to the groups that donât have content and after that to delete this content.
Hopeful, after that the groups without content will remain visible 
It could have been that when the system was updated, your scenario wasnât foreseen.
Just for curiousity, keep me updated 
Success,
//JP
Unfortunately the empty columns seem to forget that they were pinned.
Unfortunately the empty columns seem to forget that they were pinned.
Is it known if Coda staff is working on a fix for this?
Thanks, Koen
Just posting to keep this on the radar, my empty columns still seem to forget they were pinned.
@evan This is still very annoying, my empty columns disappear every day. It makes our workflow table frustrating to use. Any word on a fix?
Edit: The way I fix this every morning is to go into the card view options and change grouping from Top > Left > Top again. This displays all the pinned columns correctly.
Hi @Joshua_Upton I was sent a link to this when I raised a similar question (Persistent columns in card view) I found that pinning columns has helped me, or is that a bug thatâs not working?
The problem was with pinned columns forgetting they were pinned, this appears to have been fixed sometime in January, as my columns have not âforgottenâ they were pinned in a while.
Hi all, looks like the Coda interface has changed since this thread was last open. Iâm running into the exact same issue today. Does anyone have a fix, or is at least experiencing the same thing?
Dear @Alice_Packard1, welcome to the community.
I just checked again, the trick is that you should temporary for from card view to table view, right click on the yellow marked area next to ânot startedâ in the sample below. Then in âArrange and manage groupsâ you will be able to"pin cards" that you want to show in case itâs empty, when your settings are ready, go back to the card view and all should work fine:
I think this is one of the best hidden features in Coda 
