displayProperty in schema : where is my chip title?

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Hello,

I am working on a mini pack.
Some of my chip title have disappeared:

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or

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The content is based on the same schema in both cases:

const PageSchema = coda.makeObjectSchema({
  properties: {
    path: { type: coda.ValueType.String },
    url: { type: coda.ValueType.String, codaType: coda.ValueHintType.Url },
    title: { type: coda.ValueType.String },
    description: { type: coda.ValueType.String },
    author_name: { type: coda.ValueType.String },
    author_url: { type: coda.ValueType.String, codaType: coda.ValueHintType.Url },
    image_url: { type: coda.ValueType.String, codaType: coda.ValueHintType.ImageReference, },
    content: { type: coda.ValueType.Array, items: NodeSchema },
    views: { type: coda.ValueType.Number },
    can_edit: { type: coda.ValueType.Boolean },
  },
  displayProperty: "title",
  featuredProperties: ["url","image_url"],
  idProperty: "path",
});

The displayProperty is defined but it doesn’t seems to work.

I know it’s a detail but i think the UX is important.

Thank you in advance for the help.

Have a good day.

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Hi @j.b_o - This is an intentional change, but one that we didn’t communicate so well and that isn’t fully reflected in the documentation. With the launch of two-way sync, having the display property in the chip was making it difficult to make edits to that data compared to other columns. So for sync tables we now:

  • Hide the display property in the chip by default.
  • Always add the display property as a column (notice the “Title” column in your table).

Users can choose to show the chip title again in the sync table by opening the properties of that column:

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Outside of a sync table (formula, column format, etc) the chip remains unchanged.

Let us know if you think this new behavior is problematic for your Pack, users, or use case.

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Thank you @Eric_Koleda for these explanations.
The management and administration of this change seems correct to me.
This makes sense and two-way sync tables will provide great opportunities.

Concerning the chip, on my capture, the title is not displayed but I think it is a bug linked to the length of the title.

Along the same lines, I just have a comment about cards.

The card display is great and a good idea for certain types of content.
On the other hand, I find the inline/card administration makes me wonder.

It is possible to switch between card and inline in the block administration : views as.
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Once on the card, it is also possible to change the display… For example to link.

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However, once you have switched to link for example it is no longer possible to return to the chip display… Is this a problematic non-reversibility? It could be because we no longer have access to the formula either.

Just on thing, could it be usefull on the schema to configure the favorite display : chip or card? I don’t read anything about that in the doc.

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Oh I see, the title is missing in the hover state. If you can find a way to replicate this let me know and I’ll file a bug.

This could be a bug or oversight on our part. One of the main reasons we built cards was to use them to upgrade links, and so I think we may have assumed that the path was link → card → link, but in your case it is formula → card → link. I’ll file something with the team.

You are correct that we don’t support this sort of preference today, but it would be a nice addition. I’ll file the feature request with the team.