As you use Coda have you found things that were hard to find but easy to use once you knew it existed and figured out how to use it? Would love you hear of these in reply below. I have a few of my favorites below - I’ll keep adding to this list from the replies :slight_smile:

That is a tricky one. We need a whole section dedicated to debugging and helping with this!

For me it’s understanding how to use formulas for something I can describe in words but am unsure how to actualize in the Formula logic. For instance, if there’s a value in a cell, then do X. I found the documentation on the Formulas a little dense (I’m not an engineer) so turning to Community and H…

“Named Parameters”. See this thread .

Added @Ian_Nicholson - even I forget about that one now and then!

Hi @mallika , Instead of getting a copy from another users doc, That you can copy content from a “view only” doc and place it in a doc you are the owner of. Automatically you will be able to see all formulas used! Important: if the content you copy has “related tables”, “controls” and "formulas"o…

Oh! Not hard to find, but very counterintuitive. Say, I want to get a cell value from the first row of a table. Following the top-down logic, I’d first select the table, then the row, then the cell, i.e. write the formula like this: [Table name].First().[Column name] But this won’t work! The cor…

I had a hard time discovering that when I want to use a drop-down type select control’s value I need to use .value [Select]

[image] Paul_Danyliuk: [Users].First().[Tasks].First() — invalid [Users].[Tasks].First().First() — way to go :man_shrugging: This also gets me every time. Both should be valid IMO.

Just stumbled on this shared doc. Love it! A simple calculation that took way too much time and work (Calculating a dynamic age based on a birthday/date field): If(thisRow.Birthday.IsNotBlank(),Today().Year()-thisRow.Birthday.Year() - If(Date(Today().Year(),thisRow.Birthday.Month(),thisRow.Birthda…

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GJ_Roelofs September 16, 2019, 8:26am 15

That you can see the changelog / history of a row, courtesy of Al_Chen_Coda:

Adding to a running list of timestamps, or how to add additional items to a running list

Topic		Replies	Views
Why won't the Lookup formula work for me?	30	3837	August 16, 2021
Lookup data from another doc	21	3237	February 1, 2021
Launched: Simpler table setup News from Coda	18	2985	October 19, 2019
Feedback requested: How would you build reverse lookups in Coda?	50	6680	March 9, 2023
Realistic number of rows in a table Tips and Hacks	37	11126	April 4, 2024

😬 What was hard for you to discover in Coda?

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