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Hubert-Dudek
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Resolved! dbutils or other magic way to get notebook name or cell title inside notebook cell

Not sure it exists but maybe there is some trick to get directly from python code:NotebookNameCellTitlejust working on some logger script shared between notebooks and it could make my life a bit easier

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I got the solution to work in terms of printing the notebook that I was running; however, what if you have notebook A that calls a function that prints the notebook name, and you run notebook B that %runs notebook A?  I get the notebook B's name when...

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JJ_LVS1
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Command to install spark package from notebook cell

Hi All, I need to install a spark-xml package from a notebook cell (hoping it will work on a DLT cluster). Maven Package: com.databricks:spark-xml_2.12:0.16.0Can anyone help me with the command to install from the notebook cell? Fairly new to all thi...

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Hi @Jason Johnson​ I'm sorry you could not find a solution to your problem in the answers provided.Our community strives to provide helpful and accurate information, but sometimes an immediate solution may only be available for some issues.I suggest ...

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kodvakare
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Resolved! How to write same code in different locations in the DB notebook?

The old version of the notebook had this feature, where you could Ctrl+click on different positions in a notebook cell to bring the cursor there, and type to update the code in both the positions like in JupyterLab. The newer version is awesome but s...

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SS2
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Alt+click is working fine ​

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chris_kimmel
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Bug report: Switching branches duplicates cells

I'm using Databricks' support for GitHub repos. When I switch from one branch to another while a notebook is open, it messes up my notebook. Specifically, every notebook cell appears twice after switching branches.

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al_joe
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Resolved! Execute a notebook cell with a SINGLE mouse-click?

Currently it takes two mouse-clicks to execute each cell in a DB notebook.I know there is a keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+Enter) to execute the current cellBut is there a way to execute a cell with a single mouse-click?I could use a greasemonkey script or ...

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-werners-
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Simple answer: no.

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afshinR
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Hi, I like to create a web form with displayHTML in a notebook cell and when the users presses the post button, i like to write the content of my text...

Hi,I like to create a web form with displayHTML in a notebook cell and when the users presses the post button, i like to write the content of my text area of my form back in to the code cell of the notebook.Example:displayHTML ("""<form><textarea> u...

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jose_gonzalez
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Hi @afshin riahi​ ,Did Dan's response helped you to solve your question? if it did, can you mark it as best answer? I will help to move the post to the top so other can quickly find the solution.

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Resolved! How many cells can I create in a Notebook? Also are there any guidelines on the number of lines of code in a notebook cell?

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Although not a hard limit, it's recommended to keep the number of cells in the notebook less than 100 for better UI experience as well as code readability. Having a really large block of code in a cell defeats the purpose of notebook execution and al...

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