Hi! Sorry i am new here and am trying to find information about freezing first column in the mobile view. I managed to do this on desktop view (label + 1st column) but in doesn’t work in the mobile view (not current, nor new mobile framework preview). Is it possible to fix this? Am i doing anything wrong? Sorry if had been already replied, I have not found the solution here. Thank you!
I don’t think that will ever be possible because the mobile view is inherently narrow, so the first column may be as wide, or wider, therefore you would never be able to scroll to the other columns.
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Freezing the first column has been a feature in Preview for a while now. To see it applied you MUST turn on the “Preview new features” setting. See image below.
CAUTION: You should NOT use this setting in a live app as these features are fully tested and validated.
The “Freeze first column” feature happens automatically in table views under certain conditions - which I don’t fully understand yet. In my test app, some view freeze the first column others don’t but if I change the column order of the view to “automatic” then the first column is frozen. If I again switch to manual, leaving the column order the same, the first column is no longer frozen. Ect…
I would also think we would have control over this feature per view which is not available - at least yet.
Bottom line is that freezing the first column, at least in mobile views, is not a fully tested feature.
I hope this helps
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Thanks a lot @WillowMobileSys !
Playing around with the automatic/manual column orders actually helped to get the freezed first column on mobile! I first pressed auto and watched the first column to freeze. Saved, then switched to manual and made sure the first column was the label. Looks like a bug but seems to have worked!
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UPD: So far it looks like it only works for parent table, not slices 
As far as i know, it only freezes the ‘label’ column. So whatever you set as the label in your table data, that’s the row that gets ‘frozen’ and is usually set as first column in the view for it to work.
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Slice for me seems to freeze first column - now that I understand how to make the column freeze.
FYI, it appears that freezing works with EITHER the label column or the Key column AND one or the other MUST be set as the first visible column.
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