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How to add a row in Coda?

distributing a single item or multiple items over rows

Almost every day I am adding rows in the same or in another table. Mostly directed by a button pressed manually. Many makers wrestle with a specific use case like in this question. It is about how to distribute multiple items living in one row over as many rows are there are items.

Multiple items in a cell

I believe that even

Coda

has adapted my slogan that in

Coda

everything is a list. As a result when we apply a function, we evaluate or manipulate items in a list. Evaluation means we look at the properties and we apply a rule using a function like count all items, or count only odd items, or filter out people with the first name ‘Christiaan’ and so on. Manipulate means we print the outcome of a (compound) function as item in a cell using a button. The link with the source data is gone because only the outcome is printed as text and not living in a column as a function that recalculates each time the data changes. Buttons are one of the super powers of Coda, but like driving a Ferrari or Lamborghini, it requires a bit of training.

Single Row

In the button you follow the steps and it works. Below an alternative for a button on the canvas following the same procedure.