Suggestion on read only grid

RE: Suggestion on read only grid

Vaishal — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 08:33:53 GMT

Yeah. That works. I think i would do query in cell level if count of child record data is 10 so that i dont need to query for all cells which is having less child records. Thanks Stefan Helzle

RE: Suggestion on read only grid

Stefan Helzle — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 07:48:32 GMT

So, it is about these child record, right? Did you consider to load them on demand? You could add a local variable to the individual cell, and load the data for this cell only when the user clicks the icon.

RE: Suggestion on read only grid

Vaishal — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 18:29:35 GMT

Hi Stefan Helzle . This is just a similar scenario I mentioned earlier. In my actual use case, the user will add multiple child records (possibly more than 10) while creating a new case. On the dashboard, we display a case grid, and the requirement is to show one of the related child records in a column of the case grid, along with an icon beside it to expand and view the full list of related records.

RE: Suggestion on read only grid

Stefan Helzle — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 15:31:38 GMT

I think the purpose is the more important question. As a user of this application why would I navigate to this list? What do I want to achieve?

RE: Suggestion on read only grid

Dai Williams — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 09:54:10 GMT

Try a tree view style component instead and see how that works, I have used this before for similar use cases ...

Tree View Component

You can also nest the data using Rich text as well.

RE: Suggestion on read only grid

Vaishal — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 06:34:24 GMT

Hi .yeah i agree. I thought of showing only 2 chapters a time with expand icon. So that user can see all chapters on clicking icon if needed. If i follow the above suggestion, user cannot see more than 10 chapters.

RE: Suggestion on read only grid

VarunTejaGurrapu — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 05:42:26 GMT

Hi Vaishal ,

You can do it as osanchea to display in grid for a limited items.

It's not a best practice to show huge numbers of items in a single grid column, yes you can have n number of chapters per book, ultimately you cannot show it in a record list as a single column, instead you can show it in a new record view, eradicating difficulty of viewing such huge records.

You will have a space constraint blocking you to display multiple records: https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/25.1/sail/ux-grids.html#introduction (Check Don'ts).

Always check your grid view is intuitive and readable....

Hope this helps you!!!

RE: Suggestion on read only grid

Vaishal — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 02:51:55 GMT

Hi osanchea . Thanks for suggestion. But as i mentioned, books can have more than 10 chapters and this method limit related record to 10 items.

RE: Suggestion on read only grid

osanchea — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 22:44:55 GMT

HI. If your record "book" has a one-to-many relationship with "chapters", you can try this to display it in a grid.