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How To Coda a ViewOrLayout?

An alternative approach that works for reservations

6 min readOct 17, 2022

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seems to suggest that you can select any layout you want when you open a row with OpenRow().

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That is not true.

You can only open one layout per table (view). I filed this as a bug and the feedback was:

Hey Christiaan, thanks for bringing this to our attention! It looks like we only take table view arguments for the OpenRow() formula, so row layout names don’t work there. I do understand how that can be confusing considering it literally says “viewOrLayouts” and I’ll surface that issue with our product team.

I looked into the URL and although there is a property related to the Layout, it does not change when you select an other layout. It does however change when you create a view of your source table. This view has a different URL and this permits for a new layout. I did not see this at first. It was the great

connaisseur who showed me that instead of a…

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Christiaan Huizer
Christiaan Huizer

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