Calculations in Paper tables please

[lukeyo]

Please please please give us the ability to do simple calculations in Paper tables.

Then we can stop using google docs spreadsheets.

[Nancy]

This idea has been closed as it has reached the end of the Share an Idea process.

Thank you for your suggestion, and if you have another idea to share, please do!

[Walter]

Hey there @elliotwoods - thank you for using Paper and adding your feedback on this.

Have you by any chance heard about our integration with Airtable.com?   

I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for exactly; I sure hope this information helps to some extent though. 

[elliotwoods]

Hi @Walter - yes we use Airtabe extensively here. I agree that it is worth suggesting to anybody who isn't aware of it.

I wish that Dropbox would hurry up and buy Airtable already!!

But note that it fails in these cases as an embeddable spreadsheet table:

1. It's messy to include (it's a fixed shape IFRAME with scrollbars)

2. It's not a general spreadsheet (columns can have formulae but cells can't) - This makes it especially bad for things like budget sketches

3. You can't edit the embed view (and currently it doesn't update automatically when somebody edits elsewhere)

4. It prints really badly (that's quite general in Airtable sadly unless you buy the top tier package and get blocks)

So although being able to embed them in Paper Dropbox is a fantastic addition, from my experience it resolves about 20% of the cases when you'd want to have a table with spreadsheet-like features inside Paper Dropbox.

I imagine inside Dropbox somebody's playing with a prototype of table-spreadsheet features right now, and is just trying to convince the rest of the team to go with it 😉

[MaryBlue]

I currently track my work time on teamweek.com – would love to have a tool like this on paper! or is there something like this? 

[elliotwoods]

@MaryBlue - the closest thing maybe is the Timeline feature (probably not what you're looking for).

https://blog.dropbox.com/topics/product/paper-timelines

Perhaps best to start a separate thread to discuss the particular feature that you're after (if indeed it is a separate feature than formulas in cells)? 

[Emma]

This idea has been passed along to the team.

Thanks for contributing, we'll update you when we know if this is something they are considering working on! 

[peterlaxalt]

+1

[ledniov]

+1

[Walter]

Hey peeps (@peterlaxalt & @ledniov) - thanks for using Paper!

I was just wondering if you've upvoted this feature request by clicking on the 'Like' button right under the OP's post. 

If you haven't done so thus far, please go ahead as this will help us track the most popular features requests. 

Thanks!

[yetson]

Paper could include some simple mathematical formulas in tables 😉

[Emma]

Hi @yetson,

Thanks for your idea - could you tell us more about what particular maths formulas you'd find most useful?

It would also be great to understand your workaround at the moment - how are you performing these formulas without this feature?