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	A table can be given a color to distinguish it from other tables. Possible values are: red | orange | yellow | olive | green | teal | blue | violet | purple | pink | brown | grey | black

➡️ 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)

Q: Can I add formatting for the cells data?

A: The plugin supports HTML code as the cells value. As long as you can generate HTML data, you are able to customize your cells: