When looking at our templates you may wonder why templates are structured in a particular way.
In July we’ll rebuild our Digital Sales CRM template. This template contains common structural patterns used in Grist documents for variety of use cases. It also has common, simple examples of lookup formulas, and analyzes the same sales data two ways: lifetime revenue by customer and lifetime revenue by product.
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00:13 User Question: How to create pivot tables in Grist? 05:45 Digital Sales CRM template walkthrough 09:09 Creating a document and planning your document 11:16 Importing spreadsheet data into Grist 12:20 Formatting columns 12:42 Choice column type with colors! 16:12 Numeric columns, with currency formatting 17:12 Numeric columns, with percent formatting 17:32 Reference columns, relating data in two tables 19:55 Date column, and date formatting 21:55 Reference lookups, like VLOOKUPS but way easier! 24:40 Formulas, simple arithmetic 26:48 Reference lookup across two references 30:02 Creating productive layouts – planning your workflow 30:32 Linking widgets with related data 32:42 Reverse lookup formulas (find records referencing this table) 35:33 Calculations in reverse lookup formulas 39:15 Working with dates in reverse lookup formulas 41:14 Working with reference lists and reverse lookup formulas 43:06 Adding cards to layouts 44:42 Creating summary tables (aka pivot tables) 47:00 Creating charts 49:19 Renaming and reorganizing pages 51:00 Webinar Q&A – Historical prices and how to look them up
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