List
In this section we are going to explore different list types.
List is a key block type in Softr. You can link it to an Airtable base to build any collection of items such as a job board, product listing, a ranked list where users can upvote items, and so on. The block has a number of different layouts, which will be discussed in greater detail in the subsections to this article.
List block layouts
Now, let's find out what the common features of the block are and how they are configured.
To start with, you need to add your Airtable API key (learn how to find it here) in Settings => Integrations => Airtable to be able to import your list data from Airtable.
Alternatively, you can just hit Setup Airtable in block settings and enter the API key in the pop-up that appears next. As soon as you click on Connect Airtable, your block settings will become available and you can start setting it up.
Connecting Airtable from the block directly
In this section, we will not build a list but will rather review different list layouts and explore their specific features. So, let’s review the settings that are common for all the list layouts, and then we'll take a closer look at each layout in the subsections to this page.
After adding any of the list layouts from Blocks => Dynamic => List, you need to select the Airtable Base and Table where you want to import your data from. This is done from the Data tab of the block settings as shown below.
Block's data tab
As soon as you select your Base and Table, you'll the rest of the Data settings appear below. Let's take a look at those as well.
Here, you can set one of your Airtable table views as a default view, and the items in the list will be sorted and filtered according to the sorting and filtering configuration of that particular view. It can be a different type (e.g. "Calendar") or the same type but with different configuration (e.g. with different filters applied).
Views on Airtable
Here you have a list of available sorting options based on your Airtable fields (columns). Each field will have an ascending and descending order options (see below).
Sort by
You can choose how many items appear in the list by default. If there are more items to display, a See More button will be added at the end of the list, allowing the user to expand the list and view the additional items.
You can also choose how many items ("3" or "4") each row should contain.
When there's an inline filter on the Right or on the Left the value is automatically set to "3" and can't be changed.
This field allows you to customize the message that's shown when the block can't fetch any results for a given search query or due to some other reason.
Conditional Filters allow you to filter the list for one or more users based on the defined conditions. Check out the List Conditional Filters section for more details.
Next, we have the Features tab, where we can configure some additional parameters for our list block as well as map the block fields to Airtable to specify what data needs to be displayed and how. Let's take a look.
Lists can have one or more Inline Filters, where you can define specific fields and their options, using which users can filter the list.
Inline filters
Here you set the title of the filter.
And this is where you choose which table field you want to have the list filtered by. All the table fields are available for selection (see below).
Selecting a Filter by field
Next, you need to set the available options for the selected fields. For instance, if you want to filter by the "Language" field, and it has "English" and "German" as its options, you can add any of these options here (separated by a semi-colon) to appear as the filter categories.
Setting Filter options
However, if the selected Filter by fields's type is single- or multi-select, the options will be fetched from Airtable automatically. In the example below, we select the Status field which is single-select and has task status options on Airtable as shown below.
"Status" field on Airtable
Below you can see how the options are generated after selecting the field in Filter by.
Selecting a single-select field
Further on, you can set the position of your filter (Top, Left, or Right).
Please, note that you can't have filters both on the Left and on the Right.
You can display the filter options as a List or Dropdown as shown below.
Switching from List to Dropdown
If you enable this, the users will be able to select more than one option at a time.
Using this toggle you can remove the search bar from your list if you don't need it.
Show/hide search bar
Here you can customize the text that appears within the search bar as a placeholder.
Search by
Under this option, you choose which fields the search is going to be performed by. You can add one or more fields, but if you don't add anything, the search will return all the list items for any query. Therefore, it's best to select at least one field for meaningful results.
Here, you can configure the See More button's (for showing more items in the list) label and styling.
This is where you configure how the Airtable base is going to be mapped to your list. For each layout (discussed in subsections to this article), there is a default set of fields, for which you can set a corresponding field (Content) from your Airtable base or hide the field if you don't need it.
Mapping the field and then hiding it
Apart from that, you can add new fields using the Add field button. After adding the field, you need to specify its Type and set Content (corresponding Airtable field). For some types, there is also a Label parameter added (appears above the field content), which can be modified or removed if not needed.
Adding a new field
There is a variety of types to choose from, so let's go through them one by one:
- Text – plain text
- Headings – different size headings
- Url – clickable Url
- Button – button with the standard list of actions (Open Page, Scroll to Section, Open External Url)
- Tag – for displaying one or more tags (e.g. if you have a multiselect field on Airtable with multiple values, they'll be displayed as multiple tags)
- File – provides a link for downloading attachments
- Video/Audio – for directly embedding audio/video content (e.g. from an Airtable Attachment field)
- Image/Image Gallery - for displaying a single or multiple images (within a gallery)
- Embed – can be used for embed snippets from different services (e.g. Calendly, YouTube, and so on)
- Google Maps – for Google Maps embed code
- Rating – for displaying a rating (Content can be a number from 1 to 5 or a "Rating" Airtable field)
- Divider – a simple divider line
In this section, you can define what happens after clicking on the list item. By default, the Do Nothing options is selected, but there are 3 more options to choose from. So, let's see what each of those does.
This option allows you to select one of the table fields, which is supposed to contain URLs, so that each list item opens its own URL.
For example, if you are building a job board, the URL field can be the company website. Thus, after clicking on the list item, the user will be taken to the job posting's company page.
The Open page option allows linking another page within the app. See below how that works.
Open page option
This option works similar to Open Page, but, instead of navigating to a new page, the user opens the page content inside a modal (i.e. a pop-up). Below, we've configured the modal to work similar to a List Details block, where, for each list item ,the new page displays the details of that very item.
Showing item details in a modal
Finally, It's possible to select the Size of the modal from the 3 options available.
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