Data Viewer Grid

Create powerful, no-code, data-driven apps connected directly to Google Sheets, Airtable, or stored locally.

Overview

The Data Viewer Grid lets you connect to a Data Source and view your data as a grid. This layout works well with data that includes images.

Example of a Data viewer Grid. Data is dummy data from Webflow.

Properties

Data Viewer Grid

Property	Description	Data Type
Data Source	The Data Source your data is to be pulled from	Reference to chosen data source
Table	Table from your Data Source to show data from	Reference to chosen table in Data Source
Grid Appearance	How your data will be displayed in your app	Select from list
Populate Data	Select what items of data from your Data Source to show in which aspects of your layout	Select from lists
Horizontal Scroll	Toggle whether your Data Viewer should scroll horizontally (if false, Data Viewer will scroll vertically)	True/False
Empty Text	Text that will be displayed if there is no data to fill a string in your Data Viewer	Text

Layout

Property	Description	Data Type
X	Location of top left corner of component on X-axis, where the left hand side is X=0	Number
Y	Location of top left corner of component on Y-axis, where the top side is Y=0	Number
Height	Height of component in pixels	Number
Width	Width of component in pixels	Number
Resize Mode	Define dimensions of the Data Viewer Grid component/container	Select from list [Stretch, Float in Place]

Blocks

Events

The Item Click event is fired when any card in the Data Viewer is clicked.

Returns a row id which corresponds to the unique Thunkable Id of the card that was clicked.

The row id is particularly useful when used with the the Data Source blocks.

Functions

Refresh

Refresh the Data Viewer Grid to sync with the Data Source.

Properties

Set and get properties of the Data Viewer Grid.

Computed Height & Width

Get the computed Height and Width of the Data Viewer Grid as it appears on-screen.

Visible

Set and get the Visible property of the Data Viewer Grid

Horizontal Scroll

Set and get the Horizontal Scroll property of the Data Viewer Grid

Empty Text

Set and get the Empty Text property of the Data Viewer Grid

Data Sources

When you connect a Data Source to your project you will also have access to a second block drawer. These Data Source blocks allow you to perform a variety of CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) operations on your data.

Click on the link below to learn how to use the Data Sources blocks in your project.

pageData Sources