# Programatically add sections and tables

**URL:** <https://connect.superhuman.com/t/programatically-add-sections-and-tables/9159>\
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**Created:** [July 14, 2019, 3:53pm UTC](https://connect.superhuman.com/t/programatically-add-sections-and-tables/9159 "2019-07-14T15:53:56Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 14, 2019, 3:53pm UTC](https://connect.superhuman.com/t/programatically-add-sections-and-tables/9159/1 "2019-07-14T15:53:56Z")

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It would be great to be able to add sections or tables into the current doc with a button or something. It has been asked for by some already, but I have been wanting that for a while now.

There are some different thoughts on how to do it, but the following are the different wishes

> [@Treat sections as entries in a table](https://connect.superhuman.com/t/treat-sections-as-entries-in-a-table/373):
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> For context/motivation: I’d like to create a Coda document that tracks my team’s tech postmortems. But what that entails is generally a section per postmortem with summary + detail information. What I’d like to be able to do is have a table that summarizes some metadata about each section (title, date of occurrence, duration of issue, etc) What I think we need for that is something akin to a sections table, and some way of creating a view on it, scoped to each section where the author can fil…

> [@Combining a section and a table, automatically](https://connect.superhuman.com/t/combining-a-section-and-a-table-automatically/9155):
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> Hi coda community! Im trying to achieve something that Notion currently do very well. That is to have a table entry, but with a more detailed view of the table entry. The use case of this is for a cooking table, where I want to describe and populate the current recipe with a write up, that has pictures list and such for that recipe. See pictures in the bottom for a better understanding. What Im currently doing is to create a section, that I link to in the table name, again, see pictures for un…

Is this maybe something that is needed by more codians?
