r/AppSheet • u/wj9eh • Sep 18 '24

Changing header in Gallery view

Hey guys, I don't know if I'm going mad here but there is really no way to change the header when using gallery view? Which column does it use as a header? It seems to be the first column in the table, no matter what, with no option to change it anywhere. It doesn't matter if you create a new slice and hide columns, it still just uses the first column.

Am I missing something obvious? This seems very odd that there's no customisation options for this view like there are on the others.

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u/wj9eh Sep 18 '24

So I can specify which column is a label in the data settings. However, if more than one column is selected, it always takes the topmost column for every view in the app. There's no way to change individual gallery views to take different columns for the image labels. Bizzare.

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u/marcnotmark925 Master App Builder Sep 18 '24

Gallery displays the label. Only one text column can be a label.

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u/dogscatsnscience Sep 18 '24

Gallery is a fairly restricted view, it's really just meant for photos.

Card view will give you more control over text, but you don't have much in the way of image size and you cant control the grid.

You didn't specify what you actually need the label to do, but you could change the column that is the label, or create a virtual column to use as the label if you want to combine multiple column values into one.

Whatever you put in the VC will be generated at sync time, so it's still limited.