# New Data Grid Element Needs some love

**URL:** <https://community.weweb.io/t/new-data-grid-element-needs-some-love/16758>\
**Category:** Ask us anything\
**Tags:** data-grid\
**Created:** [February 22, 2025, 6:16pm UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/new-data-grid-element-needs-some-love/16758 "2025-02-22T18:16:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![bigduck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f475e1/32.png) [@bigduck](https://community.weweb.io/u/bigduck)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2025, 6:16pm UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/new-data-grid-element-needs-some-love/16758/1 "2025-02-22T18:16:50Z")

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First, I think the new additions are great and highly welcomed:

- Sorting
- filtering
- Scroll bar & Pagination built in

This is all great, but functionality that used to exist and be relied upon no longer does.

For example, the custom field is now completely eliminated. I used this for practically every field in a table because I often want to manipulate data items for better presentation, or do a calculation inside the table (i.e. % complete or progress bar).

As a result, I can’t use the new element, and I have to copy old table elements in order to proceed.

To the team, you have a really amazing product and I love it. There is a need though to clean up the releases to be a bit more smooth and not remove functionality which is frequently used.

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**Author:** ![DanielL](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.weweb.io/daniell/32/13398_2.png) [@DanielL](https://community.weweb.io/u/DanielL)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2025, 7:48am UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/new-data-grid-element-needs-some-love/16758/2 "2025-02-23T07:48:58Z")

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Hi @bigduck

Thank you for the feedback and apologies for that. The work on the datagrid is not over yet; your issues have been reported and we are working on a fix based additional user feedback.

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**Author:** ![thenocodecoach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@thenocodecoach](https://community.weweb.io/u/thenocodecoach)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2025, 1:00pm UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/new-data-grid-element-needs-some-love/16758/3 "2025-02-27T13:00:58Z")

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Yes, I agree with what is said above. Need the ability to use formulas inside a given field (like in the table component), formatting of a number to a currency or percentage, the ability to add a workflow to a field (like in the table component) and the ability for a user to easily add a row to the table.

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**Author:** ![DanielL](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.weweb.io/daniell/32/13398_2.png) [@DanielL](https://community.weweb.io/u/DanielL)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2025, 1:06pm UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/new-data-grid-element-needs-some-love/16758/4 "2025-02-27T13:06:19Z")

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Hey guys, FYI, while we are working on the new Data grid based on your feedback, you can still use the old one with this library: [WeWeb Marketplace](https://marketplace.weweb.io/libraries/a4c1a6fd-77fb-4ec8-8cf0-e6eb3ac3ce7c/)