[New feature] Table element [beta]

[grgrsmth]

Since people seem concerned about the lack of updates to the Table element, I’ve put together a list of ideas about the Table element currently on the Bubble ideaboard - the official tool Bubble use to track user suggestions. You can find it in this post. I’d recommend upvoting what you’d find helpful and adding ideas you think are missing to the Ideaboard.

[dpappo]

Has anyone hacked a way to get sticky columns?

I wish this was offered! Seems like a miss, since we have the sticky row.

[farouk.zemmouri]

yes , i did by creating 2 table and grouping them in a row group, the first one has only one columns and the second one has all the other columns

[ericm]

Thanks @gerbertdelangen! It’s a bit circuitous but works.

[akoziol]

Any idea on how to activate the horizontal scrolling ?

[Spixdot]

Wrap your table element in a group and make it 100% width and add to that group a class (classify plugin). You can then add this css to force the scrolling.

{addClass: “my-class”}

```.my-class { 
    overflow-x: auto !important;
}```

[Spixdot]

Hello,

I have a problem to access to custom state of a reusable element inside the table. I want to know how to get access (page) to the customs states of my RE dropdrown ?

[davidb]

You should probably start a new thread for this type of question.

Regardless, check out the Antenna/Satellite plugin:

New free plugin (9 march/20) - Satellite, trigger worfklows in reusable elements from the page and vice-versa

Hello fellow Bubblers! This is a sibling plugin from New free plugin (9 march/20) - Orchestra! Refer to inside repeating groups cell(s) from outside Link to this plugin’s page: This one let’s you trigger workflows in the page from inside reusable elements or vice versa. Place the Satellite element inside the reusable and the Antenna element in the page, outside the reusable. Create a workflow that does what you want in the page triggered by the event “Antenna X Received a trigger signal”…

[Spixdot]

Thank you very much for the recommendation! I try to avoid using plugins as much as possible, but if it’s really the only viable solution, I might consider it.

That being said, I’m wondering if this limitation is due to the fact that the Table Element is still in beta and that access to custom states of Reusable Elements hasn’t been implemented yet (Team Bubble)?

In that case, is there a workaround that others who have faced this issue have used without relying on a plugin? Otherwise, if a plugin remains the best solution, I’ll give Antenna/Satellite a try to see how it fits into my workflow.

Thanks again for your help!

[davidb]

The challenge you cite is unrelated to the beta status of the table element. For a page-level action or element to reference a custom state of a reusable element that’s replicated for every item within either a table or a repeating group, there needs to be a mechanism for the page-level reference to reconcile which of the multiple reusable elements is intended. There’s no native way to accomplish that. Plugins like the one I cited fill that gap in Bubble functionality.

[Spixdot]

I finnaly use Toolbox by running JS to make it work. Thanks again for your help!