Add Tab Separated Value (TSV) import for Interactive tables.
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Add Tab Separated Value (TSV) import for Interactive tables.
New Feature Addition · Interactive tables · Created by nowitsabby
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Currently, the only way to import data from outside world anvil as an interactive table is as Comma Separated Values, or by manually filling out the entire table. This is a problem when the data includes any sort of text that includes comma, like explanatory text, etc.
Supporting TSV data, or even allowing for custom delimiters, would allow for more flexibility in what sort of data can be imported into interactive tables and thus reduce instances of having to manually enter dozens of rows.
The Team's Response
What I would very much like to do is to have an endpoint for interactive tables that will allow you to add rows to the table. At which point the question is how that is handled. Commas or tabs or pipes are all very good and understandable ways to separate a string (I personally prefer pipes) Sadly the amount of support was way too low for this but I understand it will make the feature easier to use. Soullink: What is broken/wrong with the comma implementation
Current score
11/300 Votes · +2110 points
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by Celestial Lion
on 2022-05-15 23:54 -
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by sabersam
on 2022-05-11 15:53 -
+100
by skidznet
on 2022-05-11 09:34CSV lets you quote fields with commas in them (and it has a mechanism for dealing with fields that have both commas AND quotes). For example, this has five columns: a,b,"it was me, Dio",c,d and this also has five, with quotes and commas in one of them: 1,2,3,4,"5, everybody in ""the car"", so come on, let's ride" That said, custom delimiter support can definitely make things easier when commas are commonplace and certain other characters are not.
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-300
by A Filthy Unicorn
on 2022-05-10 10:38Off-setting coins added below.
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by a7emenov
on 2022-05-10 00:14 -
+300
by ATM82
on 2022-05-07 15:20 -
+100
by scholarmage
on 2022-05-02 15:23+1 for custom delimiters - I often use | pipe characters in tables as they don't turn up naturally - and I've lost count of the number of times using CSVs I've had to sort out text commas from delimiter commas. It's far too common to be the sole delimiter!
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+10
by Vertixico
on 2022-05-02 06:01 -
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by StolenSoul
on 2022-04-28 12:27 -
+100
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by SoulLink
on 2022-04-26 05:34The better way to do this would just to fix the CSV import. The CSV standard includes easy ways to allow commas in text. The interactive tables importer just doesn't properly implement it.
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+300
by nowitsabby
on 2022-04-26 04:54
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