How to Disable or Restrict "Duplicate Row" in a Coda Table?

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Hi everyone,

I’m trying to prevent users from using the default “Duplicate row” or “Duplicate Card” feature in a Coda table. I have a specific action button for duplicating rows and cards since I need to trigger additional actions whenever a row is duplicated (e.g., also duplicating related rows in other tables).

However, when users manually duplicate a row or copy and paste a card, it creates unintended relationships.

I’ve tried using the “Lock Document” feature, but it forces me to create buttons for adding rows in all tables, which isn’t very user-friendly.

Any tips or advice on how to restrict this behavior? Thanks in advance!

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Unfortunatelly it doesn’t seem possible. At the moment the only way to disable ‘Duplicating’ rows seems to be to disable adding rows altogether.

I’m not aware of any simple workaround other than adding buttons.

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For better understanding, here’s my scenario: As you can see, the “+ New Card” button is very user-friendly, allowing me to add sections based on groups. I’d really like to keep this functionality.

Any workaround would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

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Yep, I’m stuck on this! Thank you so much for your insight, Pablo!

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At the end this is a UI challange, so there are infinite workarounds, each one with its own tradeoffs. Here you have a couple of simple ideas:

  • Create a line of buttons above your table. A button per group, that creates a card when clicked.
  • Use the hover menu of the group relation to strategically place a button.

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Here you have the doc in case you want to play around and check how I did it

Hope this helps,
Pablo

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@Atonal_Studio

Or to have fewer buttons, then have a select/multiselect/relation dropdown with a single button that creates a new card based on what you choose. That way you can restrict to personal controls and restrict the button to only you or only specific users.

Then simply lock the table so no more plus at the bottom. I use that and have found it straight forward. It makes you think twice if you really want to create a new card/row rather then just creating, deleting willy nilly,

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