Advanced Dynamic Tables 🚀

Advanced Dynamic Tables for Bubble using DataTables.js

🔗 Links

Demo 1(Default theme) | Editor

Demo 2 (Semantic UI theme) | Editor

Demo 3 (5000 records) | Editor

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ℹ️ Introduction

Populate your table with data and update data dynamically at any time. Update any table's option dynamically without page reloads. Includes sorting, search and pagination out of the box.

🔥 Main Features

Two styling themes
Conditional formatting 🎨
Large data support
Row selection
Columns reordering
Populate your table with data dynamically at any time without page reloads
Responsive table automatically adapts to any screen size
Multiple styling options: hoverable rows, compact mode, striped rows, borders etc
84 languages included
Row click event returns row id so you can edit / remove your data
Advanced settings (enable/disable search for some columns, enable/disable sorting for some columns, ...)

Please check our demos and documentation for more features!

📚 Documentation

➡️ Plugin actions, events and states

Actions:

Populate: provide data to the table
Export: export table data to CSV
Set Language: Change table language
Refresh table
Destroy: remove the table
Order column: choose a column to sort
Add Conditional Formatting
Clear Conditional Formatting

Events:

Row clicked
Row selected
Row deselected
Column reordered
Table drawn: table fully rendered on the page

States:

Clicked row (text): row unique id
Search term (text): current value in the search box
Selected rows: list of selected rows

➡️ Add table on the page

Install the plugin and add a DataTable element on the page.

You have a bunch of options to customize your table. Most of them are dynamic which means you can change them at any time in your app (just like in our demo).

Option

Type

Description

General

Theme

Dropdown

Plugin supports 2 styling themes: Default and Semantic UI

Language

Dropdown

Table captions language

Search

Enable search

Yes/No

Enable or disable table searching

Limit searchable cols

String

Disable search on the data in certain columns. Comma-separated column indexes: "1,2,4"

Ordering

Enable ordering

Yes/No

Enable or disable column sorting

Limit orderable cols

String

Disable ordering for certain columns. Comma-separated column indexes: "1,2,4"

Default ordering (column)

Number

Column index (1,2 etc) that will be ordered by default. Can be empty

Ascending order

Yes/No

'Yes' for Ascending order; 'No' for Descending order (used for default ordering)

Pagination

Enable pagination

Yes/No

Enable or disable table pagination

Length change

Yes/No

Feature control the end user's ability to change the paging display length of the table

Nb of records per page

String

Possible options to choose for the number of records per page. Comma-separated values: "25,50,100". "Show All" option is inserted automatically.

"Show all" localization

String

If the custom number of results per page is defined above, this field allows to translate the "Show All" option if need.

Row selection

Selectable rows

Dropdown

Possible values are : Disabled, Single, Multi, OS. Multi and OS allows to select multiple rows in a slightly different way

Blur selection

Checkbox

Deselect the selected items automatically when the user moves focus outside of the table

Other

Show info

Yes/No

Show/hide table information display field (number of entries)

Reorderable columns

Yes/No

Enable/Disable column sorting

Hidden columns

String

Columns to hide. Format: "1,2,4" (comma-separated column indexes)

Horizontal scrolling

Yes/No

Enable horizontal scrolling. When a table is too wide to fit into a certain layout, or you have a large number of columns in the table, you can enable horizontal (x) scrolling to show the table in a viewport, which can be scrolled. This is particularly useful when you want to show the table on mobile devices

Large data

Checkbox

You may want to use this mode to render thousands of rows

Styles (all themes)

Striped rows

Yes/No

Changes background color of all the odd rows in the table. More info: https://datatables.net/examples/styling/stripe.html

Cell border

Yes/No

Strong delineation between individual cells. More info: https://datatables.net/examples/styling/cell-border.html

Compact mode

Yes/No

Reduces the amount of white-space in the default styling, increasing the information density on screen. More info: https://datatables.net/examples/styling/compact.html

Row selected

Color picker

Row selected color

Control text

Color picker

Control text color

Styles (Default theme)

Scroll collapse

Yes/No

Allow the table to reduce in height when a limited number of rows are shown. More info: https://datatables.net/reference/option/scrollCollapse

Hoverable rows

Yes/No

Highlight a row when the mouse is hovered over it. More info: https://datatables.net/examples/styling/hover.html

Order column

Yes/No

Highligth the columns to indicate the sorting. More info: https://datatables.net/examples/styling/order-column.html

Row borders

Yes/No

Strong delineation between rows. More info: https://datatables.net/examples/styling/row-border.html

Styles (Semantic UI theme)

Inverted

Yes/No

Invert table colors

Table color

String

➡️ Populate table with data

You should populate your table in the workflow. Call the "Populate" action (for example, from the "Page is loaded" event):

Define all the column names and data. Please note that the column data must be a string separated by the "," sequence (comma between double quotes).

Row IDs field is optional but if you are planning to use the "Row clicked" event (see below) you must provide it. It defines a unique ID for each row. Clicking on a row will trigger the "Row clicked" event which will provide a row id value.

➡️ Update table data

Simply call the "Populate" action anytime when your source data is changed.

➡️ Themes and Styling

Plugin supports 2 themes: Default and Semantic UI. It also supports many styling options defined above.

Check our Demo1(Default theme) and Demo2 (Semantic UI theme) to check how both themes look like.

➡️ Export table data to a file

Call the "Export" action from your Workflow:

Choose a filename and export format. Only CSV format is available at this moment. We have planned to add exporting to PDF very soon!

➡️ Row click event

To use this event, you need to provide the "Row IDs" field when populating your table with data. Therefore each of your rows will have a unique ID.

Clicking on a row will produce an event "Row clicked" so you can catch it in the workflow:

Now you can access the "Clicked row" state with the row id:

➡️ Search Term state

You can access the current search term ("new york" on the image below) by reading the "Search Term" state.

➡️ Conditional Formatting

Conditional formatting allows you to automatically apply formatting: font colors, background colors, font weight to one or more cells based on the cell value. To do this, you’ll need to create a conditional formatting rule.

Supported operations: =, <, >, !=, <=, >=, contains, doesn’t contain, startsWith, endsWith

Supported styles: font color, background color, bold font

1. Call the “Add Conditional Formatting” action, provide a column index, condition (operation + value to compare) and styles

2. Add one or several conditions to one or several columns

3. Call the “Refresh” action

Result:

Check out our DEMO 1 to see it in action.

Related action: Clear conditional formatting

🙋‍♀️ FAQ ⁉️

Q: Why my data is not showing?

A: If your data source is Bubble Database, first of all check your privacy rules. Also you can try to render the same set of the data (or just a number of found items) in another widget (text box / repeating group etc) to verify that you actually have access to the data.

If it doesn't help, most likely you should check the format of the provided data for every column (refer to the Populate table with data section)