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Are there good video resources for Retool in general, I looked at some youtube videos and found mostly creating a basic database view with a form. Any more substantial examples?

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Hey there! We are actually working on a video course for Retool that covers more of the breadth of the platform. Definitely more to come. One more substantial example we released recently is this bookstore application, which uses about every part of the platform [1]. It's the app demoed at this virtual event, Retool Developer Day [2].

1: https://github.com/tryretool/bookstore_sample_app

2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmLPdHqC0uQ

I wish retool produced more tutorial videos. There is this one operation, I have been trying to do for couple of weeks.

There are some URLs on a table, I want to select them and I want to make an API call to the selected URLs. There are a few discussions on their community website and all point to one documentation piece. I still haven't figured out how to do this. I don't want open a thread because I know I am going to be asked to read the documentation.

Google "multiple api request retool".

Sorry to hear this has been challenging - were you trying to do something like this, where you select a row in the table, and then make another API request with data from that row?

https://retoolhacks.retool.com/embedded/public/17eebce9-96f3...

If this is close to what you're looking for, you can import this sample app from this JSON export:

https://gist.githubusercontent.com/kwhinnery/4fed2a80788f429...

I've had a pretty good experience with retool but its component library definitely needs more documentation, as a frontend developer I'm able to go through all those props and tinker a bit until I get something done, but it's time consuming and not intuitive at first glance.

An example of this is the Table components, which allows you to create columns and set them a specific type, but that component documentation page doesn't include a section about which column types are allowed and how they work. Even further, there's a column type called Tag that it's available for us to use, but we don't have documentation about it and Tag documentation isn't helpful either,

It wouldn't hurt to add some common examples like a storybook along some way to let us see how to configure the components like that, or json examples we can import into our projects.

Absolutely agree, and something we were discussing today as it happens on the docs crew. We have some ideas we'll try in the next few months to bring more docs directly into the product, and beef up coverage and examples in the component docs.

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