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We are excited to unveil a new, dynamic Table View experience that launches in all inriver environments on March 13, 2025.
What is the new, dynamic Table View?
This powerful, intuitive new way to view, sort and filter content will transform the way you interact with the inriver portal. It makes it easier for non-specialists to become PIM users, fostering a culture of collaboration throughout your product information lifecycle.
Familiar tools and spreadsheet-like batch editing will accelerate your time to market. You can now configure and save the columns and views that work for you, without the need for custom UIs or workspaces.
What are some of the benefits?
- Supercharge productivity. Work more efficiently for a faster time to market as you take fewer steps to enrich, review and approve product data, even with large and complex data sets.
- Get more people working in your PIM. Encourage collaboration throughout your product information lifecycle with intuitive tools and automation that minimize training needs.
- Reduce custom development. Quickly and easily configure the views that help your teams work most effectively. There’s no need to write custom code or UIs to suit your use cases.
How does it work?
PIM users will be familiar with toggling their search results between Card View and Table View. Now, when you toggle to Table View, you will see the results displayed in a dynamic, grid-like experience that offers a host of new features:
- Adjusting your view. From the default grid, you can quickly add, hide, and reorder columns to create the view that is most suited to your needs. Pin specific columns to the start of your screen to save on scrolling. When you have customized the view, save it for future use.
- Filter and sort. Easily refine search results using common web-based conventions such as sorting and filtering – including conditional filtering. Results are updated dynamically as filters are selected/de-selected using checkboxes.
- Flexible, multi-entity editing. If your user role has the appropriate permission, you will be able to drag the contents of one field into another, just as you would copy the value from one cell of a spreadsheet into the next. You can also cut-and-paste values between multiple fields. All this without having to click through to the detail page for any of the individual entities. When you have made your edits, press “Save” to commit changes to all the entities at once.
- Combine with a workflow. When configuring a workflow, admins can select the Table View configuration that is presented with the assignment. This means users working on the assignment only see the fields relevant to their task. All other fields are hidden. For example, if an assignment is concerned only with checking technical specifications and measurements, you can save the user from scrolling through marketing content to find them.
Want to see the new Table View in action? Watch our short video demonstration.
How do I get access to the new Table View in my environment?
No action is required to activate this new user experience. All PIM users will automatically get read-only access to the new Table View from March 13, 2025, via the existing Table View tab in the portal.
However, the ability to edit content within Table View must be enabled per user role by PIM Admins using a new permission setting. We have chosen this approach following feedback from our valued team of customer Beta testers. It gives time for all users to be trained before they use the functionality in production. It will also avoid potential disruption to any existing custom extensions and workflows you have in place.
So, if you are a PIM Admin for your organization, we recommend you read the user guide to understand how and when to enable the editing capabilities for your users. If you are a PIM user, please contact your PIM Admin to discuss how and when your organization will roll-out this capability.
Want to know more?
- Read the user guide on Community.
- Read about how to add Permissions and assign them to Roles in this article.
- Take the Academy course, Get Started with inriver User Onboarding for a guided walkthrough of content enrichment which includes the new Table View.
- If you haven’t got time for the full Academy course, watch the 15-minute section below that covers use of the new Table View.
Comments
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Looking forward to this update, this will be very helpful for the team. Is there a limit to the number of entities you can display in table view? For example, if our query pulls up more than 10,000 will things slow down?
Thank you
Hi Beth Ryan, glad to hear that you are excited :) . In this article you can read more about data loading limits. Have a look and see if it answers your question. If not let me know.
Hi Nicky Lilja, where can we find the short video demonstration you are talking about? Thank you
Hi Mathilde Champ
The short video demo is in the article "Batch editing using table view" and if you have 15 mins then see the one at the end of the article "Get started batch editing with the new dynamic table view".
Mathilde Champ could be that you are not able to view it if you have denied any cookies. If you update your cookie setting then you should be able to see it.
Thank you Line Lund Jensen for the quick answer as well :)
Indeed that was a cookie issue, thank you both for your answers :)
Is there a plan to use "dynamic Table View" for Specifications for items/SKU as well? This would be really good for setting the Specifications for many similar items/SKU at the same time.
Hi John Christian Aarnes, thank you for your comment, currently this is not something that is planned. Please add it to the idea portal under UI/UX category, and explain the use case that you have. In that way the Product Manager will be able to view it and see if anyone else have a similar need :)
Thanks
Hi, in the table view, I can't select which field i want to show or not ?
I see only few of them, like below, but if I want to add additionnal column, how to proceed ?
Thanks
And it would have been great to :
Thx
Hi Antoine Demeusy, When you first start using the table view it has a default view with columns for you. To change and update columns and what fields you would like to add use the "Columns" and "filters" bar at the side. In this way you can select which attributes you would like to work with on what entities etc.
Does this answer your question?
Also, do note to edit in the fields directly in the Table View you need to add a permission in Control Center.
Antoine Demeusy to answer your second post :) thank you for the input, make sure to post it in the ideas portal under UI/UX category.
As you might have read in this article, you are listing known limitations and our product managers are aware of these needs. So they might come further down the line. Keep an eye on the monthly release notes to stay updated on improvements and fixes that are released to the Table View. :)
Hi Nicky,
It was the "EditTableView" persmission which was not assigned to my profile. Thanks. When I have product entity, it works great, but when i have items in the work area, I still can't select other fields :
Maybe it's related to this error : (I created a ticket : 73449)
Antoine Demeusy Super that you created a ticket :)
Doesn't work properly with resources...at least in our environment. Columns are missing and same error message as above.
Hi Samuli Holmala , thanks for sharing, please create a ticket to the support team so that they can help troubleshoot what is causing the error.
I just want to put out there that I would LOVE to be able to created and use shared workspaces within table view the way I can in queries and work areas. This would solve for a reporting need that we lost the solution to when we switched solutions for our PIM and I'd love to be able to bring that back for our teams. Thanks!
Also, it seems I can't reorder my columns and then save that new order - is that possible now? If not, can we add that to the enhancement list as well? Thanks!
Hi Hannah Dalsoglio thank you for all the great input, again I just want to ensure this is captured in the right way, so please add your two feature requests to the Idea Portal category UI/UX, in this way the product manager can easily see what is needed by the community :), and maybe your idea is already there and then you can vote for it.
Hi inriver! The table view feature is great. I have a question though. I work in an environment with my user configured to use model language and data language Swedish. But in the table view, columns are still shown in English, with default [FieldTypeId] when English name is missing. Is there a way to get the table view to use the selected model language?
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