Line breaks in data grid and text wrapping

Any progress on this one? Should be easy to do (IMHO).

Hello,
I'd really like to see line break as well! I was hoping Control-Enter would do it.

I'd be happy enough if I could achieve this (syntax-wise) via something as simple as:

First line\nSecond line, Next field

So the "\n" would be interpreted as a new line. Creating multi-line tables/data grids in any language that outputs HTML is easy, and they're a very common part of most web-apps, so this would be great to be able to show in a mockup. I'm manually creating a DataGrid right now to get around it.

Another related feature would be some way of indicating "colspan" (in HTML-lingo). Perhaps something like this?

First Column, Second Column, Third Column, Fourth Column, Fifth Column
First Column,, Third Column,, Fifth Column

Notice the double-commas? They would indicate that the column to the left spans over an additional column. You'd also be able to do something like this:

First Column,,, Fourth Column

With multiple commas just spanning extra columns. Don't know how hard this would be to implement visually, but it'd sure be handy for more complicated table layouts.

Cheers!

Here is an example of a data grid that I cannot seem to replicate in Balsamiq.

I've just started using Balsamiq today. I wanted a very quick way to mock-up a data table. To do what I need I must have multiline headings as described above. I'm going to have to go back to visio or powerpoint because what i'm trying wont work without this facility. Good luck!

i also desperately need to be able to mockup examples like Michael's compliance report, especially concerning the subheadline rows in tables. this is a common structuring feature widely used in web apps for data input.

Any news on this one?
I am using tables in my mockups and they get very large, as I can't break down the header cells...
Thank you.

Hey, i would also really like this idea to be implemented.
Multiline tables are very good at displaying more information in a non-overwhelming way.

You should definitely consider some conventions/default behaviour:
I would recommend to make second line in multiline down-toned.

An example of a well-done multiline table is Google Maps driving directions (see screenshot). Here there is extra information on line 2 if relevant.

I think that your implementation could benefit from adding that convention :)

Just throwing in my two cents that I'd love to see this feature. In response to: "I know that a variable-row-size grid is very hard to implement (at least in Flex)", it may be difficult in flex, but it's trivial in html, so for those of us who use balsamiq to mock up traditional web applications, it would be very useful.

FWIW, I'd like to vote for the implementation of this feature to be a priority as well. Without it, this tool would have limited use for me because we do a lot of columnar data display in our web applications and our cells often span more than one row by design.

Just got my Balsamiq Mockups license this week. Great product!

Doing multiple lines within a table cell is definitely my most needed feature.

Any update on how development of this is going?

Just ran into this issue today while mocking up a looooong table whose headers could stand to be compressed, and not just by renaming.

I'd love to have this, too

\n or maybe
?

Just another vote for enabling newlines in datagrids.

I came across Balsamiq recently while looking for a wireframing tool. As a trial I tried building a mockup of a webapp for a client using the online demo. I ended up having to paste stickies all over my mockup explaining how the table would really look, what would really be displayed, as without newlines I couldn't accurately do it.

Otherwise - wow, love the app!

Hi Murali. Don't quite understand your answer. There aren't any ways to set such attributes in the balsamiq UI. Are you referring to the underlying programming? I'm sure the change is not that simple for Peldi, otherwise he would probably have done it by now.

Appreciate the update!

Great news, many thanks!!

Looks good - just what I asked for. Amazing we actually close the loop on this stuff. Social Product Development at it's best!

- It was one year ago that I requested this feature.

Looks great. Exactly what I was looking for. Noticed one very minor issue.

Not sure if this is the right place to post it but here goes...

In the case of "some text\r[a link]" the link does not get rendered. The workaround is to insert a space between the newline character and the link tag as "some text\r [a link]"