datasette-checkbox. I built this fun little Datasette plugin today, inspired by a conversation I had in Datasette Office Hours.
If a user has the update-row
permission and the table they are viewing has any integer columns with names that start with is_
or should_
or has_
, the plugin adds interactive checkboxes to that table which can be toggled to update the underlying rows.
This makes it easy to quickly spin up an interface that allows users to review and update boolean flags in a table.
I have ambitions for a much more advanced version of this, where users can do things like add or remove tags from rows directly in that table interface - but for the moment this is a neat starting point, and it only took an hour to build (thanks to help from Claude to build an initial prototype, chat transcript here).
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