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:

@mallika I took me a while to discover that when needing just 1 section (but not all the other sections) from a community template … since there is no way to Shift / ctrl + click and then delete, the most efficient way to delete multiple sections is to add the unwanted sections to a folder and then …

Oh, and this fact too: [image] When you reference the master table in the formula, it always works on a full set, whether or not a filter is applied. When you pull the same data from a view, it will only use the filtered subset. Sorting setting doesn’t matter in either case, you need to explicit…

[image] Paul_Danyliuk: When you reference the master table in the formula, it always works on a full set, whether or not a filter is applied. When you pull the same data from a view, it will only use the filtered subset. And this is sometimes very useful also in terms of efficiency, so relyi…

IDK, I prefer to rely on master tables only — more predictable that way. I like to explicitly write in my formulas what exactly I need from the full data set and how. One exception is that if it’s a formula that is only used once and nearby the view in vicinity — e.g. a header saying Hello User(), …

@Paul_Danyliuk , I had the same feeling: somehow it’s like not really be sure of the underlying data. I discovered it really helps a lot (i.e. better UI performances) when many rows - and many columns - are involved. Often it’s just a matter of proper View naming. Think about the overall histori…

@Federico_Stefanato Never tested it actually, but I think that if we were after micro-optimizations, we wouldn’t be using Coda but write it in C++/Java/etc :slight_smile: I mean, with tools like Coda, I believe good data design and sensible conventions are more important than performance. But yeah…

Good point. I’d love to keep this discussion open :wink: I’ll write you in private (in order not to deviate this post)

@Paul_Danyliuk - this is fixed now. now you would see all allowable columns in the dropdown. - the fix would be deployed in a day or two. Thanks for reporting the issue.

Oh, and also this: [image] PSA: How to make columns equally wide Tips and Hacks A quick and non-obvious trick to make columns equally wide. Just select multiple columns with shift pressed, then resize one of them, and all selected ones will get resized to the same width: …

I knew that one already from excel

😬 What was hard for you to discover in Coda?

Paul_Danyliuk March 18, 2021, 11:18am 32

After two years, THIS:

Idiomatic way to extend tables

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😬 What was hard for you to discover in Coda?

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