Column labels in dynamic settings

[AlexYes]

Hi!

It would be great to be able to map column names to different labels in the dynamic column settings like this:

[{
name: "cost_per_event"
,label: "Cost per Event"
,type: "numeric"
},{
name: "other_metric"
,label: "Something Entirely Different"
,type: "integer"
}]

That would make the tables look much more user friendly. I know there is an option to do this via a transformation but if a transformation is complex enough and it has dependent transformations/objects it becomes hard to maintain the updated keys and it's just extra code on top of a lot of code already. It would be great to move the labeling into a separate layer and dynamic column settings are a perfect existing option for this.

Dynamic column settings - Sorting/Names/Position

an upvote here, especially for column names (labels), this is an essential feature to support which will make the tables look much nicer! but I see this in "how do I?", not as a feature request, let's create one p.s. at the moment the order seems to depend on the order in the dataset (though JSON is technically an unordered set I noticed the order in which you specify the keys defines the order in the final table), at least if you visualize the result of a JS transformation. But I agree having …

Dynamically set column display title?

I have a table to display data containing an unknown number of columns, which get named 0-n by Retool based on the column position in the data returned. Can I use dynamic table settings to map these names e.g. "0" to display titles e.g. "User ID"? If so, I can't see it in the docs. Thanks.

[KelseyBegin]

Found a lot of help in the forum but signed up specifically to +1 this and add in that an order: would be helpful as well for my use case. To add to the above example:

[{
name: "cost_per_event"
,label: "Cost per Event"
,type: "numeric"
,order: 0
},{
name: "other_metric"
,label: "Something Entirely Different"
,type: "integer"
,order: 1
}]

[AnsonHwang]

Dynamically set column display title?

I have a table to display data containing an unknown number of columns, which get named 0-n by Retool based on the column position in the data returned. Can I use dynamic table settings to map these names e.g. "0" to display titles e.g. "User ID"? If so, I can't see it in the docs. Thanks.

What dynamic table settings are possible?

Hi Matus, currently you would click on the table and drag the column to resize it. We are always working on improving our table component, so hopefully there will be other ways you can resize it in the future!

Allow a table's columns to be set editable dynamically

It's currently not possible to make a table column editable through code. This can only be done with the UI. There is a columnEditable field defined as: "An object representing any table columns configured as editable, with a key as the column name and a value of true" However, changing one of the values to false or adding new columns doesn't work. Object.values(table1.columns).forEach( row => { table1.columnEditable[row] = true; } ); Adding this feature would be useful especially if th…

Hello, there are so many request about dynamic column setting. please pay attention to it.
I add to above
[{
name: "cost_per_event"
,label: "Cost per Event"
,type: "numeric"
,order: 0,
editable: true,
width: 23
},{
name: "other_metric"
,label: "Something Entirely Different"
,type: "integer"
,order: 1,
editable: true,
width: 23
}]

Thanks in advance.

[victoria]

Hey @AnsonHwang! Thank you so much for gathering those Really appreciate you taking the time to do that. I just shared your post with our engineering teams

[AnsonHwang]

Hey @victoria . Thanks for your reply. What is your engineering teams feedback. I am sorry to hear the retool is not an open source project, and the development team's roadmap is unpredictable for us.

[victoria]

Hey @AnsonHwang!

For starters, we'll be updating the docs for dynamic column settings. Then, we filed internal tickets to allow editable and title to be set dynamically. I also passed your recent feedback (about an unpredictable roadmap) along.

Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts and definitely do keep them coming if you have any more!

[AnsonHwang]

@victoria

Then, we filed internal tickets to allow editable and title to be set dynamically.

Hey @victoria . I am sorry, my mother language is not english.
Can you let me know what is "filed internal tickets " mean?
Does it mean your team have accepted part of this suggestion and begin to devolop it?
Thanks for your kindly reply.