I’m a user that was looking to buy elfsight and saw that tables have been requested for the past 3-4 years and still isn’t being considered? What can be done to make this an option? This is my number one need from you guys right now
Yes we’re still waiting and hopeful for this feature!
In the meantime, I developed a temporary stop-gap solution. Created an AI prompt file that generates html blocks that I then copy and paste into a category page html widget using BigCommerce page builder.
This is just a temporary method I will ditch once Elfsight releases their feature!
Live example here
Not ideal and requires I re-run the prompt file after pricing updates, but not time consuming just grunt work copy and paste. I have less than 20 category pages so takes about 30 minutes or so running each category in a different AI session concurrently. Main time is waiting for the AI to finish and then copy and paste into page builder.
No CSS mods required since uses basic html inline formatting.
I had an AI create my reusable prompt file - basic logic:
- Scrap all product page urls found on the category page url provided by user.
- Scrap each product url for Item # (sku), size or description, pack size and price.
- In my case, sort products by size
- Generate html table with product page links
I’ve added a few bells and whistles to have thumbnail show, and also product category guidance to split products into multiple tables based on features. Also adds the H2 and H3 titles tohelp with SEO and AI shopping agent discovery.
Key tip - after an update I ALWAYS have another AI platform use the same prompt file as just a reference to go review the new live category page and audit all the information by doing another scrap pass of the product urls. That prevents any AI hallucinations or drift.
Again not ideal work around, but I finally have a way to present table view of all the products on a BigCommerce page LOL.
Hopefully the elfsight development team will get us a permanent solution soon! One that dynamically pulls catalog product details on the fly so manual updating not required!
Hey there, @user35517, @Donald_Hill 
Many thanks for sharing your thoughts!
We completely understand your excitement about this app and I am really sorry about its delayed delivery.
We’d truly love to bring new apps and features out faster, but with so many requests coming in, we have to prioritize them carefully based on factors like complexity and community demand.
Even though this idea has received strong support from the Community, there are still a few requests with a higher priority at the moment, so our devs are currently focused on those.
However, we’d like to assure you that this idea has not been forgotten. I’ve passed your feedback on to the dev team, and we sincerely hope it can be prioritized sooner. As soon as there are any updates, we’ll make sure to share them here.
@Donald_Hill, thanks a ton for sharing your smart workaround. I’m sure it can be helpful for other users in the meantime while the Tables widget is not available yet 