Child Table Limitations in Frappe

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Hello,

I am working on Provident Fund(PF) module development in ERPNext v.15. My CTO shared with me many documents and sample forms. Here is on of the sample form of PF module,

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I explained the child table design and structure in Frappe to my CTO and demonstrated how we could display sample form table data in our child table. Afterward, he was disappointed and said, ‘Why does an advanced web application framework like Frappe have such a limitation, only allowing us to show 10 columns of data in a child table, rather than displaying it like the sample form table?’

I couldn’t respond effectively. Is Frappe have any plan to restructure the child table design to overcome these limitations?

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We solved that issue.

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@Maheshwari_Bhavesh Wow. How do you override Frappe default child table functionality? Please share

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We have created a custom app to override the child table. Currently, it is not publicly available, but we will be publishing it on the Frappe Cloud Marketplace soon.

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@Maheshwari_Bhavesh Can you please share the code?

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Soon or later it should be managed from framework. Client rewrite is being done, I hope this get improved in upcoming versions …

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Finally!!! Can’t wait to experience it…

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@ejaaz It would also be great to make the list view scroll-able. The UX would be great as many end users would want to see a little more fields that are most often used in the list view itself rather than opening the document.

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Hi @mujeerhashmi , thanks for the suggestion; it’s already on my to-do list. :smile:

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