Data Viewer Grid Component

Overview

The data viewer components act as a display layer for the data in a connected data source. The data viewer grid displays your data in a grid.

Properties

Data Viewer Grid

PropertyValueDescription

Data Source

References chosen data source

The data source your data is pulled from.

Table

References chosen table in data source

The table within your data source your data is pulled from.

Grid Appearance

Select from list

How your data will be displayed in your app.

Populate Data

Select from lists

Map your data source's columns to the fields they will be displayed in.

Horizontal Scroll

True/False

True - data viewer scrolls horizontally

False - data viewer scrolls vertically

Empty text

Text

Text that will be displayed if there is no data in your data source to fill a data viewer field.

Layout

PropertyValueDescription

X

coordinate value

Location of the top left corner of the data viewer grid on the X-axis, where the left-hand side is X=0.

Y

coordinate value

Location of the top left corner of the data viewer grid on the Y-axis, where the top side is Y=0.

Height

number in pixels

Height of the data viewer grid in pixels.

Width

number in pixels

Width of the data viewer grid in pixels.

Resize Mode

Stretch

Stretches the data viewer grid to fit the dimensions of the device's screen.

Resize Mode

Float in Place

Renders the data viewer grid in the same aspect ratio as the design, regardless of the device size.

Blocks

Block: When Data Viwer Grid Item Click

The "Item Click" event block is fired when any grid item in the data viewer is clicked. It returns "row id" which corresponds to the unique Thunkable row ID of the item that was clicked. The row id is most useful when used with the the data source blocks.

Block: In Data Viewer Grid Call Refresh Data

Refresh the data viewer grid to sync with the connected data source.

Block: Properties

Set and get properties of the data viewer grid.

Data Viewer Components

If the data viewer grid isn't the best layout to display your data, one of these other options may be more appropriate:

Data Viewer List ComponentCustom Data Viewer

Data Sources Blocks

To access the data sources blocks, you must first connect a data source. Then, by incorporating the data source blocks into your app, you can allow users to create, read, update, and delete data in your data source when they interact with the data viewer.

Data Sources Blocks


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