Your data

Some sites are just pages of text and images. Other sites need to remember things — the menu items at a café, the people who have RSVP'd to a wedding, the products in a shop, the comments left on a blog post. Wemob gives every project a built-in place to store this kind of information, without you ever having to set up a database yourself.

What's it for#

You need the data feature when your site has lists of things that should persist and be edited later. Some common cases:

• A restaurant menu with dishes, prices, and categories
• A list of reservations or bookings people submit through a form
• A guest book where visitors leave messages
• A simple CRM with contacts and notes
• A list of products for an online shop
• A blog with posts you can edit later

You don't need the data feature for a simple landing page with fixed content, or a portfolio where the list of projects rarely changes. For those, the content lives in the pages themselves and changes when you chat with Wemob.

Ask for what you need#

The easiest way to add data to a project is to describe it in the chat. For example:

• “I need to store reservations with a name, email, party size, and date.”
• “Add a menu section that pulls from a list of dishes I can edit.”
• “Make the blog posts editable, not hardcoded.”

Wemob will set up the storage, wire it into your site, and — if it makes sense — seed it with some realistic starter entries so you have something to look at.

Looking at your data#

Switch to the Datatab at the top of the Studio to see everything your site is storing. On the left you'll see a list of collections (like reservations,menu items, customers). Click one to open a spreadsheet-like view of every entry.

From this view you can:

• Scroll through all entries
• Sort by any column
• Filter to find specific entries
• Click any cell to edit it
• Add new entries with a form
• Delete entries you don't need

Adding and editing entries#

The + Insert row button at the top of the table opens a small form. Fill in the fields and hit save. The new entry is stored immediately and will show up on your site on the next refresh.

To edit an existing entry, click any cell in the table and type. Your change is saved as soon as you move to the next cell.

Common examples#

Some things people regularly store in Wemob projects:

• Reservations: a form on the site collects them, the Data tab shows them in chronological order, you export them to email or CSV once a day
• Products: edited in the Store tab (which is the Data tab with extra features for e-commerce), shown on the shop pages automatically
• Blog posts: written in the Data tab, rendered as proper blog pages, optionally pulled into a homepage feed
• Mailing list signups: a form collects emails, the Data tab shows them, you sync to your email tool manually or automatically
• Guestbook entries: a form lets visitors post messages, the Data tab lets you moderate and delete anything inappropriate