Mouse over interfaces: New feature, custom shortcut for everything!

Hi community,
Follow my thoughts and see if I’m crazy.

Today, we can interact with a row through it’s “mouse over tip modal”, like below
current tip

What if we could build our “mouse over tips” without breaking Coda’s logic?

Imagine we could choose the row tip to be a table view, like below
new view row tip
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Then (in the table view)
shrink buttons
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and then
hide columns

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and then
show column headers
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Voilà
final argument 2

Does this sound useful?

Bonus question: Could this work with card views?

please see the following post for step by step guide to creating hover tool tip displays in coda by @Nina_Ledid (based on an o.p @Paul_Danyliuk)

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Thank you for your wisdom @Xyzor_Max

Upon testing this approach, I can say it worked and it was useful. With that said, here are a few thoughts.

It didn’t worked “right out of the bat” for timeline views, which I solved by making a second step hover:
test

Secondly, It felt a tiny bit convoluted (Objects() Merge(), etc). I was actually suggesting a simple feature for Coda Team to implement, so we could have something very simple, like this in every table:


Screenshot 2023-06-26 115114

Nonetheless, this approach was indeed useful and I’ll be using it until I find a simpler approach.

Let me know if you have a better approach on timeline views, maybe I’m missing something. Thanks again.

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