Simple in-row chat like widget

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Hello,

I try to migrate from Monday since I discover the power of Grist ^^, and one feature we commonly use is the in-row chat/discussion system.

So I’ve made a widget that embeds a chat-like session directly in a row. Can be used also to enhance a “comments” column and keep track of history.

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It requires at least one column in the table where you want to embed chat/comment. Additionally, you can use a second column to manage the message author.

(Currently it’s a bit tricky; I update the main column first, which lets Grist update the user column - throw formula - then I read this update and add into the main column the message with the current author).

The widget is available here: GitHub - Varamil/grist-widget: Additionnal widgets for Grist and an example here: Message-Widget - Grist

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Very nice! This will be super handy for cooperative work on documents.
Just a quick suggestion: It might be more robust to serialize the data to JSON rather than your custom ¤¤-delimited format. :smiley:

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Thank you !

At the beginning I wanted some thing verry simple that anybody (non coding) can edit if need. But you’re right, JSON is much better, and by the way, I plan to add the message edit feature.

Widget has been updated to v0.3.

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