Notes and actions

Table actions

Add row or column actions to a table when a reader should filter, drill, or open more detail straight from a row instead of leaving the table to find it.

Region	Rep	Product	Revenue
AMER	Rep 3	Plan A	$1,560,200
EMEAFilter to EMEA	Rep 1	Plan A	$1,234,500
APAC	Rep 2	Plan B	$842,300
LATAM	Rep 4	Plan C	$398,100

What you can do

A table’s panel-level onClick binds the whole clicked row as the action’s datum, using the same ElementClickAction (filter, drill, or openOverlay) any chart panel uses; there is no separate per-row action property.
Every actionable row is one tab stop; Enter or Space activates it the same as a click, so a table’s onClick is keyboard-reachable without extra markup.
A panel-level contextMenu.actions right-click menu works on a table panel exactly as it does on a chart: at least one action mixing filter, drill, link, copy, export, and openOverlay.
A TableColumn.contextMenu adds actions to one column only; those actions render below the panel-level menu’s actions in the same popover, not in a separate menu.
Every action, whether bound at the panel level (onClick, contextMenu) or the column level (contextMenu), still requires label, the text a reader sees before or during the click.

Panel-level onClick and contextMenu apply to a table panel the same as any other panel type; TableColumn.contextMenu is table-only, since no other panel type has columns.

Spec

View spec

{
  "id": "reps-by-region-table",
  "type": "table",
  "title": "Reps by region",
  "data": {
    "rows": [
      {
        "region": "West",
        "rep": "A. Chen",
        "revenue": 410000
      },
      {
        "region": "East",
        "rep": "B. Ortiz",
        "revenue": 390000
      }
    ]
  },
  "spec": {
    "columns": [
      {
        "field": "region",
        "label": "Region"
      },
      {
        "field": "rep",
        "label": "Rep",
        "contextMenu": {
          "actions": [
            {
              "type": "copy",
              "label": "Copy rep name",
              "copy": "rep"
            }
          ]
        }
      },
      {
        "field": "revenue",
        "format": {
          "type": "currency",
          "currency": "USD",
          "compact": true
        },
        "align": "right"
      }
    ]
  },
  "onClick": {
    "type": "filter",
    "label": "Filter to {region}",
    "param": "region",
    "valueFrom": "region",
    "valueType": "string"
  },
  "contextMenu": {
    "actions": [
      {
        "type": "drill",
        "label": "Drill into {region}",
        "targetPage": "region-detail",
        "param": "region",
        "valueFrom": "region",
        "valueType": "string"
      },
      {
        "type": "export",
        "label": "Export result (CSV)",
        "format": "csv",
        "scope": "result"
      }
    ]
  }
}

onClick binds the whole clicked row and templates {region} into its label, the same as a chart’s onClick; the panel-level contextMenu adds a drill and an export action, and rep’s own contextMenu adds one more copy action that renders below them.

Try it live

Open the rich-tables template in the Builder

No bundled template wires a table onClick, so that half is read-the-block; right-click a row of p1-reps in the rich-tables template to see a table’s panel-level contextMenu live.

Build it in dvt

Every table capability on this site is a few lines of the same declarative JSON spec. Read the full spec format, or connect an AI agent to your warehouse and build one live in the quickstart.

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