feat(tables): improve view and filter controls

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Summary

This second PR builds on #6724 and completes the table-view control changes. With table-views enabled, users can choose which saved view is a table's default via a pin in the Views menu. The Columns and Sort menus stay open across view-editing gestures. The filter builder applies dropdown and row gestures immediately, while typed text commits on Enter or blur.

With table-views disabled, none of those interaction changes leak into the existing experience: the filter builder keeps its legacy Apply/Clear flow and Sort closes after a selection. The flag is resolved server-side for both table-detail and embedded surfaces and passed into these interactions explicitly.

Filter commits now happen directly in completed user-event handlers, not in an after-render effect. Opening the panel, rerendering it, or refreshing column data does not write anything by itself. The save baseline still seeds from the builder's own reading of the stored filter, so a stored tree the flat builder renders differently is only normalized after the user actually edits a rule.

Autosave hardening:

• An autosave response settling no longer remounts an open filter panel and wipes in-progress text or focus; reapplying an identical view configuration is skipped.
• "Filter by cell value" saves the narrowed filter to the active view.
• A stale update-view response can no longer demote the current default in the cache; a promotion must be fresh versus both its own cached row and the currently pinned row.
• isNull and isNotNull conditions and mixed AND/OR filters round-trip through the builder without being silently dropped or flattened until the user changes them.
• Switching a complete valueless filter to an operator or column that needs a value keeps the saved condition active until the replacement value is committed, even when another rule is edited or removed in the meantime.
• Invisible rename/delete action slots pass clicks through to their view row; the controls become interactive only when shown.

Type of Change

• Bug fix
• New feature
• Breaking change
• Documentation
• Other: ___________

Testing

• Five focused suites for the changed surfaces: 51 tests across resource options, the filter panel, views menu, columns menu, and view-mutation hooks.
• Coverage includes commit-on-Enter/blur, incomplete operator transitions preserving the saved filter across other rule changes, passive panel/column refreshes writing nothing, OR boundaries surviving cleared or removed group-leading rules, isNull shapes, stale promotion responses leaving the default untouched, the disabled default pin staying inert, and flag-off legacy filter/sort behavior.
• bun run lint and bun run lint:check
• bun run check:audits (30 repository policy audits)
• bun run type-check (26 package tasks)
• bun run apps/sim/scripts/check-block-registry.ts feat/better-table-views-ux
• Review focus: field-commit semantics, autosave reapply behavior while the panel is open, single-default cache state, and menu selection without closing the menus.

Checklist

• Code follows project style guidelines
• Self-reviewed my changes
• Tests added/updated and passing
• No new warnings introduced
• I confirm that I have read and agree to the terms outlined in the Contributor License Agreement (CLA)

Screenshots/Videos

Not included. DOM interaction tests cover the changed menus and filter-commit behavior.

Post-Deploy Monitoring & Validation

• For 24 hours, monitor table-view update errors and save-error toasts after filter, column, and default-view interactions.
• Validate that selecting "Set as default" leaves exactly one default view and that the chosen view opens after returning to the table.
• Validate that typed filters apply on Enter or blur, persist after leaving the panel, and that opening or passively rerendering a saved view's filter panel writes nothing.
• Treat increased table-view update failures, duplicate defaults, or lost filter state as rollback triggers.
• Owner: Tables feature maintainers. This child PR can be rolled back independently if the new controls regress while the autosave foundation remains healthy.

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PR Summary

Medium Risk
Filter autosave and default-view cache logic are easy to get wrong (lost filters, duplicate/missing defaults), though behavior is heavily covered by new tests; scope is UI and view config, not auth or row data APIs.

Overview
When table-views is enabled, table view editing gets stay-open menus and immediate persistence without changing the legacy path when the flag is off.

Filter builder switches from Apply/Clear to autoApply + onChange: column/operator/conjunction/removal gestures save at once; free-text values use a buffered FilterValueInput that commits on Enter or blur. Saves are deduped from the panel’s rendered rules so opening, passive rerenders, or column refreshes do not write; incomplete operator transitions keep the last applied rule until a value is committed; OR boundaries and isNull / mixed AND/OR shapes are preserved until the user edits them. With the flag off, Apply filter / Clear filters and per-keystroke value editing are unchanged.

Sort gains optional keepOpenOnSelect (used when views are on). Columns moves from popover to dropdown and stays open across toggles. Views adds pin controls to set the default (replacing the “Default” badge), keeps the popover open for pin/rename/delete focus behavior, and wires onSetDefault through table.tsx to useUpdateTableView.

useUpdateTableView cache updates demote the previous default on promotion and ignore stale promotion responses so a slower reply cannot strip a newer default. VALUELESS_OPS is exported for the filter UI. Flag docs note server-resolved behavior for detail and embedded tables.

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Greptile Summary

The PR completes the table-view controls and hardens filter autosave behavior.

• Preserves mixed AND/OR boundaries when rules are cleared or removed.
• Retains previously applied valueless conditions during incomplete operator or column transitions.
• Prevents passive filter-panel rerenders and echoed autosave responses from rewriting or resetting filter state.
• Adds persistent Columns and Sort menus plus default-view controls behind the table-views feature flag.

Confidence Score: 5/5

The PR appears safe to merge.

No blocking failure remains; the current conversion, removal, and deferred-condition paths address both previously reported filter-state defects.

Important Files Changed

Filename	Overview
apps/sim/app/workspace/[workspaceId]/tables/[tableId]/components/table-filter/table-filter.tsx	Moves autosave into completed gestures while preserving OR boundaries and deferred applied conditions; both previously reported filter failures are addressed.
apps/sim/lib/table/query-builder/converters.ts	Preserves logical group boundaries around incomplete rows and round-trips valueless predicate operators.
apps/sim/app/workspace/[workspaceId]/tables/[tableId]/components/table-filter/table-filter.test.tsx	Covers passive rendering, deferred valueless conditions, and OR-boundary preservation for clearing and removal.
apps/sim/app/workspace/[workspaceId]/tables/[tableId]/table.tsx	Explicitly enables autosave under the feature flag and remounts filter drafts only for genuine external filter replacement.
apps/sim/hooks/queries/tables.ts	Hardens optimistic saved-view updates and stale default-view response handling.
apps/sim/app/workspace/[workspaceId]/tables/[tableId]/components/views-menu/views-menu.tsx	Adds default-view pinning and improves row action hit behavior.
apps/sim/app/workspace/[workspaceId]/tables/[tableId]/components/columns-menu/columns-menu.tsx	Migrates column controls to a menu that remains open across visibility changes.

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Disabled pin clicks select the view

Medium Severity

The pin is always shown, but a disabled pin (Current default view, or any pin for read-only members) still uses Button’s disabled:pointer-events-none. That sits on a pointer-events-none overlay, so a mouse click passes through to the row, runs onSelect, and closes the menu instead of leaving the pin inert.

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• apps/sim/app/workspace/[workspaceId]/tables/[tableId]/components/views-menu/views-menu.tsx#L253-L254

 

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