Mobile compressed table view in original table only?

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I notice on my mobile devices when I look at an original table in table mode, it shows like the image here, however in other scenarios it shows as a single row requiring scrolling.

I would like to know how to enable this view in other places and how to configure it.

Thanks

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It depends on wether the display column is hidden or not… The layout will change on mobile devices as a result.

This is a weird and undocumented behaviour, but it is useful to know.

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Thanks. That doesn’t seem to be it as the display column is visible and the same in both.

What did you find?

Switching some stuff from Notion to Coda, and like many finding Coda to be so much more powerful, except for mobile. I hope I can figure out how to make it work for us.

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Hi ALN,

I will suggest you to use formulas and display things in Mobile…that way it looks more manageable…I run my entire Homestay business in Coda using only Mobile Phone.

Few tricks that I have found useful are

  1. Display all the text infos using formula..eg.
concatenate(thisRow.Col1, " | ", thisRow.Col2,  linebreak())
  1. For opening the row to get detailed view, first create a OpenRow button within the table. Then create Text column and use button() formula. Lets say you create the column with name “OpenRowButton”.

The display formula can look something like this:

concatenate(OpenRowButton, " | " , thisRow.Col1, " | ", thisRow.Col2,  linebreak())
  1. Join everything up using Join() and display it

Here is the example output:

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Are you sure? The display column has a little flag next to its label.

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Yep. The bookmark icon. Did you find that it gives this view with the display column is hidden or not hidden?

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I just built a quick example. This is how it looks on mobile

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Here you have the link

Btw, give Cards a try too. It behaves much more consistently between desktop and mobile.

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Thank you! Cards aren’t really what I’m going for on desktop, however I’ll give them a shot.

But - what does it use to decide what columns to display where in that awesome, but undocumented view?

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As far as I know all columns are visible in both cases.

When the display column is visible, it follows some unknown logic to arrange the data. You might need to fidget around to find a layout that you are happy with.

When the display column is not visible, you just need to scroll horizontally to see the other columns.

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Sorry, did not understand your point clearly.

In the method I described, since we are going all in only using formulas to suffice our needs, its not dependent on bookmarking or hiding or unhiding of the column.

Additionally, the OpenRow button takes in additional argument of which layout view to open on the button click. So you can first create the desired layout and then map it to this button.

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