Table Export Pack

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Table Export Pack

The TLDR

The table export pack allows your users to export Coda tables and views into either CSV or Excel files. You can either save the exported files directly a Coda cell to save or download them directly to your device with the press of a button.

Read below to learn:

Table Urls - the one thing you need to download a table

Downloading to your device

Saving file to a Coda Cell

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Table Export Pack, extend Coda with Table Export - Coda Export Coda tables and views to CSV and Excel files. Either download them directly to your device with the press of a button, or have those files saved and sto coda.io⁠

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First things first

Every part of this pack requires you to provide a tableUrl - the table url helps the pack know which table or view you want to actually export.

Finding the tableUrl is really simple once you know where it is! When you hover over any table, to the top left of the table there is a 3 dot menu. Simply click on that 3-dot menu, select Copy Link and then paste it into your formula!

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Download directly to your device

This pack allows you to download any Coda view or table directly to your device. Lets show you how it works

The Download() formula is intended to be used when you want to set up a button that allows the user to download the excel/csv file directly to their device. But you must use that formula inside of a button.

Specifically, the Download() formula of the pack must be wrapped in a normal OpenWindow() formula from Coda

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Notice that the `OpenWindow()` formula wraps the `Download()` formula of the pack

Notice that the `OpenWindow()` formula wraps the `Download()` formula of the pack

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Here is what that button formula looks like!

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Download this animal table

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Animal Table

Animal Table

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Save file to a Coda cell

This pack allows you to save your excel/csv files to a coda cell! Lets show you how it works

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The Export() button of the pack allows you to easily save a downloaded file to a file column in Coda. The formula itself will be the same, in that it requires a table-url. But in order to save it to a cell you are going to use the Results Column action of the button to save the file to a cell.

Heres how you do it:

Create a button in a table using the Export() button of the pack

(2) Create a results column for the button like in the screenshot below (Expand arrow to the left to see screenshot)

Notice that as I’m choosing my File Column as the result column for my button, it is still set to a text column. ONLY set the File Column to an actual File type after you set it as the results column for the button

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(3) Now that you have set your results column, change the results column to an actual Coda File type column

Note that you must do this AFTER you set the buttons result column to this column. Results column for buttons must be set as text first, then changed to file type

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Save to a cell

Save to a cell

Export

File Column

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Hey there!

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and

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and Im on a mission to help everyone become an expert at Coda.

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The TLDR

First things first

Download directly to your device

Save file to a Coda cell

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