Tabs on detail view

[hcquadros]

Tabs in detail view using show collumns, the same way it works with forms.

I’ve done an workaround with an Enum collumn, quick edit on detail view enabled and show_if based on this collumn, but its kind of messy.

[hcquadros]

Dashboard view allows tabs on mobile view or narrow browser windows and we can make different detail views of the same table/slice, but doesnt really solves the issue for browsers.

If the the Editor allowed dashboards inside another dashboard (Inception comes to mind) maybe we could make it work on browsers too?

[Koichi_Tsuji]

Yes, this is kinds of MUST HAVE items, especially for users of app who interact with APP mostly on PC, browser.
It should give more easy navigation to switch the view within the same row. Currently when we have long list of columns in a table, then we need to scroll ALL THE WAY down to see the target field. Loads of my clients actually complaining about this interface.

Also I wish to have detail / form view full width option as well.

Optionally change the width of detail view to fit with screen size Feature Requests

Detail view is cutting off the space both side, left and right when we view the same on the computer regardless of the screen size. When we have table view as inline, we need to scroll to right to view the rest of column. If we could change the width of Detail View optionally to full width to expand, we can instantly access and view the rest of the columns. Even for the rest of view, like card, gallery etc, it would give more quicker insight to user to access to the items in inline view as we…

[WillowMobileSys]

Yes please include Tabs capabilities in Detail Views in the same way it is allowed in Forms.

While we have a work-around (below), This being a No Code/Low Code platform needs to aim at ease of use.

Tabs in Detail Views Tips & Tricks 💡

To make your Detail Views have tabs, similar to a how a Form view can have them, follow these steps: Either create slices for each “tab” of your table, and their corresponding detail views, or just create detail views with different column order settings. Create a dashboard view that holds all of the above detail views. Make sure to select “Use tabs in mobile view” Create an action to navigate to this Dashboard view for a specific row LINKTOROW([key column] , “dashboard view”) Set the Row Sel…

[hcquadros]

This workaround works only on mobiles or narrow browsers. If we could put a Dashboard view inside another Dashboard view (right now, we cannot), we could narrow the one we want to have tabs, so it would also work on an usual browser view.

[hcquadros]

Any news on this?

[hcquadros]

Have you found an workaround for this?

I’ve tried and used some workarounds for space saving (page tabs and expand-retract sections with actions, format rules and show-if constraints), but it always involves changes on the database, which can cause many problems, specially with multiple simultaneous users. I feel Detail View needs more attention.

[Koichi_Tsuji]

Basically no progress in this regards.

Appsheet was started as platform to create “Mobile Apps!!!” years back. Now they are not saying so, but at the time birth was given.
Detail view still inherit the sprit from there, it is perfect fit with mobile phone, but it does not with browser view. I have been placing bunch of feature request to improve this, but so far no news unfortunately.

I would say this is one of the weakness in Appsheet in terms of UI.

By the way, you are doing great stuffs on your app.

[Koichi_Tsuji]

One trick which I share is “Grouping the columns” within Detail view to present more information as much as possible to app user without letting them scroll all the way down down or up and up to see and find the information they need.

On this gif, you see first the default appsheet detail view.

Then second one is I would say “Set of column are grouped by section”

In this way, we are able to present more information at a glance without scrolling down or up.
And user just hit somewhere the section and be guided to the form view to edit the targetted section only.

This makes I hope my app users life little bit easier, but we still need major change in detail view as a whole in my opinion.

[Koichi_Tsuji]

Otherwise, we need this feature as Matt requested before, which is one of awaited feature to come.

Device-Only Columns (Moon shot request) Feature Requests

Often I find that I need to build a place to store a temporary variable (something that a user can select, and when they do it triggers or brings about special functionality [like sorting, or filtering for the specific selection the user made, etc.]). The problem here is that as people interact with the system, they accumulate many (sometimes dozens) of updates that have to be uploaded to the cloud. [image] In the gif above, each time I change the…

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[MultiTech]

hcquadros:

it always involves changes on the database, which can cause many problems, specially with multiple simultaneous users.

Anytime you build out functionality like this, the records that hold the variables need to be user-specific.

I’ll either create the control columns directly in the User table (as a smaller sub-section) or as a dedicated child-table. This way each user is only ever modifying a record that they would normally interact with, and you don’t have cross-talk.

[hcquadros]

That’s great. Thank you! It really saves a lot of space.

I also used MultiTech advice to change the table in which the data is changed. This helped a lot with simultaneous users.

MultiTech_Visions:

records that hold the variables need to be user-specific

[pravse]

As noted in the comment for a couple of other feature requests, we have a focus this year to improve the app UI for fullscreen browser views.

We will roll this specific ask in along with the overall design work for this effort. I do not yet have any insight to share wrt what we are doing for detail views. But it seems completely sensible to me to align what we do for detail views with what we do with forms (they are duals in most ways).

When there’s design proposals, we’ll come back to the community to share them and seek feedback.

[Wiktor_Jurek]

Totally agree with all points above. Currenty working on a CRM with a client in which they need to input a load of data for each client (70+). This becomes very cumbersome to do on the web interface. Glad to hear the AppSheet team are on it

[Steve_Chambers]

Can i ask what is the column type for your Green numbered titles ?

We cant format column headers so i assume they must be show type columns, however i cannot seem to add inline actions to show type columns

[hcquadros]

Normal text collumn with some format rules that make it look like Show collumn. Display name set as " " to don’t show the collumn title.

I should add that I’m not using that workaround anymore because it is a bit expensive for the app.

Excited to see what AppSheet team is cooking up.