Cards

Cards show each row as a card with an image, a title and a description. Use them when a picture says more than a column: products, people, equipment, vehicles.

At Acme, Equipment shows each unit as a card with its photo, its model and serial, and its status.

What it needs

Any table or view. The image is optional: a URL column or a file column (see Files).

The layout

Title, description and image each take a column or a formula: {{model}}, or CONCATENATE({{brand}}, " ", {{model}}) to combine several. In the wizard you pick a column; formulas are edited later in Settings › Views. See Formulas.

An image from a file column is fetched with the viewer's own access, like any other file read.

What users can do

• Open a record by clicking its card. Each card also has a ⋮ with the record's actions.
• Search, filter and page, as in a Table.
• Select cards to edit them together.
• Change the card size, remembered per user:
  • Normal;
  • Compact: narrower cards, the description on one line;
  • Very compact: the image alone, with the title and description in a tooltip.

The image's shape, fit and crop never change with the size.

A row condition on one of the shown columns (an expired warranty, an item out of stock) marks the card with a colored edge, or dims it. See Settings › Data.

Settings › Views › Cards

The layout above, and Card size: whether users can switch the size. The size a first-time user starts with is under Presentation.

Next steps

• Kanban: the same cards, in lanes.
• Settings › Actions.