I’ve seen multiple examples of a drag-n-drop CSV importer using Skuid, so I know it’s possible…probably need to do some digging through the community a bit…for example here: https://community.skuid.com/t/paste-values-into-table
Then, you could also do something along the lines of the dynamic table creation / report builder…see example of one I did here… https://community.skuid.com/t/dynamically-create-component-upon-click-of-button
The missing “golden nugget” that would bridge those two features would be some sort of declarative creation of objects/fields…
I’m sure it’s not too far fetched. Here’s an example of a Salesforce field creator tool that runs on heroku: https://github.com/benedwards44/fieldcreator …so something like that would just need to be re-built using Skuid’s JS API.
A very clever idea would be to build this on Skuid Platform using an already provisioned PostgresSQL datasource (or something). Here’s an example I found of how to create tables & fields on Postgres using CLI: https://github.com/nmolivo/dataquest_eng/blob/master/1_production_databases/02_opt_tables.ipynb
…that example uses CLI, but since Skuid already has a CLI tool…I’m sure some dots just need to be connected to make it a seamless experience…
Ultimately, users would have to head over to Skuid Platform to take advantage of the spreadsheet-like functionality…and start capturing data on Skuid Platform…even if it’s just to send that data back over to their SFDC environment. Then users might start thinking…maybe I should just keep my data on Skuid Platform and expose it through apps built right there on Platform…
Probably more dots that need to be connected than I am making it out to sound…but I’m quite positive Skuid product team could make it happen!
