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Option to "Add new row" or record when editing a table in Table widget

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07-12-2021 03:02 PM
Status: Under Consideration
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BrittanyBurson
Frequent Contributor

We love the Table widget editing experience, as it allows for a user friendly way of editing for our users who are moving workflows from Excel. We are looking to maintain and edit a number of non-spatial Tables this way, but what is missing is an option to "Add new row" or record. Bonus: This would be especially useful if add new related row/record were supported for relationship classes.

Something like an edit menu or using the existing one with...

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For now the only way we can think of working around this is adding a bunch of empty rows for updating by the user.

Thank you ExB team!

23 Comments
Shen_Zhang

@MarkGo, have you tried placing the edit widget into a widget controller? It's more compact but requires an extra click though.

AlixVezina

Adding the idea from @Shen_Zhang above:

have you tried placing the edit widget into a widget controller?

You can also configure a message action to open the Edit widget within the controller automatically when a feature is selected from the table or a button is clicked to create a new feature.

Here's a sample for editing features (you can do something similar for editing only table records too) - but yes, an extra click is always needed right now for feature/record creation: Add feature from Table

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Here's the configuration of the actions:

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AlixVezina
Status changed to: Under Consideration

Having an integrated way to create features and records in the Table widget is being evaluated.