On January’s webinar, Natalie walked through how to build productive layouts in Grist. She covered same-record and reference-record linking, card views, sorting and filtering, summary tables, and simple charts.
Timestamps
00:07 Lightning Round – questions sent during sign-up (relevant links below) 04:18 Overview of Influencer Outreach example 05:07 Views v. data 06:07 Creating dashboards for productive workflows 07:05 Linking widgets with different data tables, connected by a reference 08:16 Creating and editing card view to see data at a glance 10:40 Linking widgets with the same data (same-recording linking) 13:05 Sorting data in widgets 13:35 Data entry in dashboards 17:06 Formulas to surface more key information 19:25 Filter bar for quick filter buttons 21:39 Creating dashboards that summarize data with pivot tables 22:25 Linking widgets to summary tables 23:12 Understanding how summary tables update with new data 25:17 Creating charts 28:23 Understanding saves between sessions 29:22 Creating a calculated column 33:16 Adding buttons 37:31 Formatting percentages 38:35 Using a formula to pull Gmail email history (possible, community link below with example)
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