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Depending on the task and the collected data, different display modes are useful to facilitate your work in SeaTable. SeaTable offers you views for this purpose on the one hand: Quantitative data is best captured in the table view, structured with filters, sorting and grouping, and analyzed with the help of statistics.
For the advanced types of data that you can store and organize in SeaTable, there are further views and plugins. For example, for scheduling, the Timeline and Calendar prove to be particularly helpful. For images, the gallery is useful, and for geographic data, the map. A Kanban board makes sense especially for groupings of single selections.
In this post, learn which views and plugins are available, how you can use them, and for which use cases they are particularly suitable.
Table view
SeaTable has a table view for the most common use cases. Here your data is recorded in a table consisting of rows and columns. The Table View is SeaTable’s default view: when you open a base, you first see your data in table form.
The Table View is essential for manually entering, editing and managing data in a base: In it, you create the tables and define the column structure. Each column is assigned a type that captures specific data.
The table view is particularly suitable for displaying text- and number-based data. Using the available view settings such as grouping, sorting and filters , you can also perform simple evaluations very quickly.
In the Status-row you can keep an eye on the number of rows and the column values at all times.
Statistics
To create diagrams and visualize numbers, use SeaTable’s statistics module. It allows for more complicated evaluations than is possible in the table view. In addition, it offers a wide range of graphical display options with a variety of supported chart types.
Extensive information about the statistical evaluation options can be found in the instructions for the statistics module .
Advanced views
The table view can be supplemented with additional views: With the Calendar view and the Timeline view you keep track of your appointments and deadlines and successfully organize projects. With the Gallery view you manage records with images in your base and with the Kanban view you visualize your tasks and project phases. Last but not least, the Tree view allows you to display hierarchies between linked records.
Find an overview of the views here
Plugins
With the help of plugins you can supplement your base with additional display options and functions. These extend SeaTable’s possible fields of application beyond pure views. Plugins allow you to view your data from different angles.
You activate the plugins via the Plugin Manager, which you open via the Plugins button in the top right corner of the base header. You can learn how to add plugins to your base here . Plugins are always activated only for the opened base. You may have to repeat the activation of plugins in other bases.
Display addresses and position data on a map using the Map plugin or map complex organizational structures with the Org Chart plugin . The Page Design plugin as well as the Report Design plugin help you quickly turn your records into laid out documents. With the AI Chat plugin you can even connect AI models to your base to analyze or process large amounts of data. Further plugins offer whiteboards, SQL queries, deduplication and the visualization of table relationships.