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What is the main differences between a Data Table and a Gallery?

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Posted on by 932 Super User 2024 Season 1

What is the main difference/s between a Data Table and a Gallery?. Can I use a data table to navigate to an edit form?. Also when is Data Table going to emerge from 'preview' as it was released in 2017.

 

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  • cha_cha Profile Picture
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    Hello @HamidBee 

     

    Data table is a control that presents a tabular presentation of your data.

     

    Gallery control can duplicate the function of the table and it's highly customizable. I would advice you to use Gallery since you want to add more functions


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  • Sundeep_Malik Profile Picture
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    Hey @HamidBee 

     

    First I will talk about the similarity: Both are used to show data.

     

    Talking about the main difference, I think that is other controls like icons, labels cannot be added to a data table, as far as I know. And in a gallery you can add them. Like you will add an arrow to a particular row to navigate to next screen to the edit form. 

     

    Now, talking about can you use a data table to navigate to next screen to the edit form, I dont think thats possible. Currently I just tested one thing, I added the edit form in the same screen. In the data source of the table I added the data source and in items property , DataTable1.Selected.

    And it worked. But still I dont think you can use it to navigate to next screen. 

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    But still wait for other people's responses, maybe I could be wrong. 

     

    Data Table provides a beautiful tabular form to show data, but any day I will prefer a gallery over a data table. 

     

    I hope this helps. 🙂

     

  • HamidBee Profile Picture
    932 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

    Thank you for the detailed answer. I will give it some time and wait for other replies. I'll also try it out and run a few tests. I'll share my findings here. 

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