Hi guys, I’ve stumbled upon a pretty serious limitation - at least for the usability of my particular doc - that I hope can/will be resolved soon. I’m a big fan of the expand row/row layout feature in Coda. Here’s the default layout of a master table: [image] Now what if we wanted to make one o…

I just received an update on the matter: Unfortunately this is a known limitation of how our buttons launch the modal when activating a row. It’s not ideal but a workaround we recommend right now would be to have each view in a different section, and using a ‘master detail’ or ‘slide’ so you can s…

Hi there. I recently stumbled across an approach that might help you here. In short, it’s possible to pop open a row with a button, and to do this in a way that takes you to the layout/modal associated with a specific view, rather than the default layout for the master table. The basic method is …

Thanks Tim, that’s pretty cool (albeit a bit hacky as Justin notes). Unfortunately, hard coding the url is too much of a hassle for my use case, as I regularly make copies of my ‘master doc’ for individual users (I’d have to redo the urls for each copy). I’m hoping this fix/feature will be added soo…

Hi @mr_motus , You can give this a try to force the layout of a specific view… [image] Pop open a row with a button if you build your URL like this - it would load appropriate layout. Url( pick the view ) + ‘/r’ + RowId(thisRow) + ‘/&modal=true’

Would love to be able have an option in a button to open a model when creating a new row and select which layout to use as an option

Dear @Mohamed_Hamad1 , Did you try to play with the above link shared by Ben to the post of Krunal?. It takes some playing around, but it works well. Feel free to share a dummy doc, with explanation of your expectations and will try to support you

i’m trying it out, but what i’m looking for is a button that will open a modal for a new row to add. but i’m using a master table for a few content types, and i’m looking to create several buttons to open different modal views depending on what i want to add to the table.

The row layout of a view is somewhat useless in it's current state

Ben_Lee February 18, 2020, 6:22pm 6

Hi @mr_motus,

You can give this a try to force the layout of a specific view…

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The row layout of a view is somewhat useless in it's current state

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