I've been facing an issue related to saving my selected table rows to the local storage and then automatically selecting them again when the page reloads. I could really use some help in figuring this out!
I'm working on a web application that requires users to select specific rows from 3 different tables. I want to store these selections in the local storage so that when the user revisits the page, their prior selections are already marked for them.
I believe there's a disconnect between saving the selections and retrieving them to set as default selected rows upon page load. I'm not sure if it's a syntactical error, a conceptual oversight, or maybe I'm missing some critical Retool functionality.
Has anyone else faced this issue or something similar? How did you manage to save and then retrieve table row selections using local storage in Retool? Any guidance, examples, or references would be greatly appreciated!
I also can't reference to the local storage since it only stores strings, right?
What should I do? Change the code in the queries that drive my tables so that I do have indices of the rows? And by the way, I'm not an experienced code writer at all. All code is written by ChatGPT
Also, maybe it's smarter to save the actual data instead of the indices of my rows. But I'm trying to reselect the rows that were selected in a previous session so I thought saving the indices of the rows was quicker.
oh boy chatGPT!
OK well once you retrieve the local storage values like:
_.get(localStorage.values,'BrandDNABV...') using ... here just to be brief but fill out the full name of each.
In each table you set the default selected row to be the value in [ ] (but you may need to parse it.
You also will need to turn on multirow selection for each of the tables
The only issue I see here is that saving the rows in localStorage with indices is that if the table data changes and is sorted automatically the indices will then be off
Thanks for the tips!
So I finally managed to put the right indices in the localstorage. But since they are still strings, I can't reference to them although they look like indices.
And when I try to parse them so they become arrays of indices again so I can use them as default row indices, I get an error that says:
message:"Failed to read the 'localStorage' property from 'Window': The document is sandboxed and lacks the 'allow-same-origin' flag."
Are you trying to read the localStorage in the same app or from a different window/iFrame? If you can store the values as '0,2,4' that may help because you can take that value and stuff it into an array when getting it back
I'm trying to read the localStorage in the same app. But I don't know how to convert them to an array. It seems like accessing localStorage with queries in the same app is not possible in Retool.
However, even with local storage, I still found myself wrestling with retrieving indices and toggling default rows whenever a select component underwent changes. So, at the end of the day, I opted for storing the indices of the selected rows in variables and afterwards in a Google Sheets document.
Google Sheets offers a far more flexible playground for data manipulation than local storage does.
It looks like you can also store objects in localstorage without the need to stringify:
