Is there a means of controlling the layouts displayed on mobile devices? I’m using a detailed view during development from a desktop, but on the same mobile device it seems to render either a table or a modified version of the detail view without any obvious logic. In addition the display of fields …

There’s an algorithm that handles the mobile layout, so no individual settings to force these types of things. For some docs though, I’ve created a “Mobile” section and added views of tables in the way that displays best on mobile. You could even create section links at the top of each section for …

Dear @Chris_Joseph , Search in the template gallery for “Equipment Inventory Management”, created by @Ben_Lee It’s a good example on how to create a mobile friendly app.

Checking out the template for insight, thank you both.

@Ben_Lee I have been searching the community boards for a HOW_TO on implementing this behavior. Spent a lot of time building different Layouts corresponding to different Views of the same Table. But when testing my workflows on mobile and desktop, there are random times where I’m seeing the incorrec…

Hi @Charles_Jing , Welcome to the Coda Community! If you’re talking about mobile layouts of tables, there isn’t really a way to force this. Coda uses an algorithm to determine what gets shown where on the mobile “card”. The mobile “card” correlates to a desktop row. One sort of cheat is if you hid…

Hi @Ben_Lee :wave::wave: Shoutout to @Paul_Danyliuk who explained how to do this in his post [image] Mega trick: Different "Expand row" layouts for the same row Tips and Hacks Most likely you’re familiar with “Expand row” feature that lets you see a popup for a row by cl…

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Charles_Jing April 22, 2020, 2:11pm 7

Hi @Ben_Lee

Shoutout to @Paul_Danyliuk who explained how to do this in his post

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