Is the Grid feature still getting updates?

The new Grid feature is great, but I still feel like there’s a lot of functionality that is missing and would be great to have. Does Coda have plans to improve the Grid feature or is it safer to assume no changes will be made to it, at least in the near future.

Hi Samuel,

What kind of improvements were you thinking of?

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Well a big hurtle I run into is sending emails that need data formatted as a table in the body of the email. I know this can be achieved by just making a view of the table in a canvas column, but it becomes really difficult to manage when I have to send the email to 200 people or more.

So what I’d love is either:

  • A formula that I can use to generate a grid. Something like makegrid(column formula,row formula) or something. This option would be ideal because I don’t always know how many rows I’ll need.
  • If they could get the format() formula to work with grids. I usually have a Templates table, and the template will be in a canvas column, then I reference it in each row that actually contains the data I need. But when I try to do this with a grid, it doesn’t work. See this post.

I’ve tried a lot of different methods to send tables in the body of emails but it’s always a major pain to get them set up.

My #1 issue is a big one . . . You can’t cut and paste components into grids.

So if I have existing date range selectors, drop-down lists, I can’t move them into a grid.