Problem description:
I use a Tulip table as a structured form of completions to store data that is inserted by operators. The completions page is unstructured and the columns are made in order as the variable is created. While building an app you make the variable when needed and do not think about the structure of the completions page.
The problem is with analyzing the pictures in Tulip Tables. The only way to enlarge the picture is to open a record editing and copy the AWS link where the picture is located and paste it to the address bar.
Tulip Tables should have the same functionality with pictures made using the app as the completions. When you click on the picture, it should enlarge it.
Hey Andres, this is a good idea to improve consistency. When you want to enlarge these pictures, do you want that to happen directly within the Tables UI? Ie you click the image within the Table itself? Or is it also good enough to click anywhere in the record, open up the record editing interface, and then click the image from there?
I am working with our product team to track this one down to see where it sits, I will reply here when I have a better answer. A couple questions-
Have you seen the “Turn on text wrap” option? It makes table photos larger, then resizing the table column will enlarge the photo.
Is there a reason the data can’t be viewed within an app to allow more flexibility on formatting?
Most of the intention behind tables is to be a data repository, as opposed to a place to be doing lots of interacting with data (I like to think of it as a database as opposed to an excel sheet), this is the same reason you cant do things like adding calculated columns or highlighting columns within a table. Having said that, this functionality is needed to just do very basic data auditing, so it is something we need to address.
The app table has information about a visibility questionnaire for different areas of the department, one of the fields contains a picture of that area, the department can have several areas.
I need to display for each area the relevant questions and the picture, the employee should be able to zoom into picture so he sees even small details.
I could not apply this ability, if you have a way I can apply zooming into image, I would glad to know and implement.
I tried to use the “Turn on text warp” but still, the worker can’t do zoom in and beside that, for horizontal pictures, the text wrap works fine, enlarge the picture to fit the row height but for vertical picture, the user have to scroll up and down to see the complete picture.
Here is kinda what I was picturing for using an app, just using an interactive table to display the records, then on selection showing the photo in that table larger -
What are the main reasons employees want to review this data in the table directly as opposed to an app? I want to make sure we can find a working solution to solve your problem.
Hi Pete,
I didn’t think about using the place holder variable, now it’s working great but still, I tried to execute on my mobile phone with the Tulip Player and there is no ability to do zoom in and out, you know, enlarge the image using your fingers, so the picture viewing on screen much bigger but can’t view smaller details of it.
Talked to our engineering teams. The only other option today would be to host your image on another service like ImgBB and then using a “Open Link” trigger. This will open your photo in a browser, and can be zoomed into there.
The good news is in r224 (coming in about 2 weeks) the image widget will now be able to be tied to a table field, and this image widget allows click to enlarge.
