Ability to Add New Rows on Top instead of Bottom of a Table

[eh_grist]

Hello, it would be helpful to have a document-level or table-level setting to control whether new rows are added at the top or the bottom of a table. In my previous experience with database software, new rows were always added at the top, which made it easier to see the latest data first. I think this would be especially useful for business data, where the most recent entries are often the focus.

I’ve added a concept of how that would work in the picture below. Basically the row numbers would be inverted as well and every new row will be added on top.

[Emanuele_Gissi]

Yes. Very desired indeed.

I suggest opening an issue on that.

[m1981]

I see the ability to add a new record directly in any ‘table’ or ‘card’ view is a quite redundant subject. Maybe you would be interested by this experimental feature :

Option to Add a New Row Directly as a Card

This isn’t exactly what you are asking, but related: there is a recently added experiment to show a “New record” button at the bottom of the active view, which you can enable by adding ?experiment=newRecordButton to the URL of your document. It doesn’t open a card, so you still need to hit Space to get there. But the reason it’s an experiment is to collect feedback. You can add your feedback as comments here: "Add new record" button · Issue #366 · gristlabs/grist-core · GitHub.

It’s not exactly ready to production yet, but it has the benefit to make more visible how to add a new record. For me, it lacks some feature as automatically set active field to the first one on the new record.