Improved add columns interface
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Adding columns to a report is relatively easy--you get an interface with two listboxes--the left one lists all the fields that are not in the report, and the right one lists all the fields that are (in the order that those fields will appear from left to right). There are buttons to move a field from the left listbox to the right, and vice-versa.
HOWEVER, when you add a field to the listbox that lists the fields that are in the report, the newly added field is inserted ABOVE the currently selected field, and then the newly added field becomes the currently selected field. It should be inserted BELOW the currently selected field and then become the currently selected field.
In the current system, if you are going through a list of columns that you need to add to a report (and doing so in the order you want them to be in in the report), you need to, after adding each column, go back to the righthand listbox and click on the listbox entry one row down from the currently selected entry, and then go back to the lefthand listbox and select the next field to add. Or just add them all and then click a bunch more times to reorder the fields in the order you want them in.
The interface should be configured so that users can simply select the fields they want to add from the left side and add them in sequence, without needing to click in the righthand listbox at all.
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@ChristianS9906 Great. Thanks for the feedback.
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@gregg_appcoll Hi Gregg, just had the opportunity to use it--works great, and man is it a nice update. Thank you again!
Christian
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This has been added. Apologies for the delay. We hope this helps.
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@gregg_appcoll Thanks, Gregg--looking forward to it!
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Hi Christian - so sorry for the delay. We have been swamped with other projects. This should be added within a month.
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@support_appcoll Any ETA on this feature/fix?
Every time I define columns for a new report, I end up spending more time re-ordering columns than selecting them, and it's pretty much all due to new columns being inserted above (in front of) the currently selected column instead of below it.
Seems like it would be a really easy fix--completely in the UI and not involving any schema updates or other back-end work.
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@ChristianS9906 - Sorry for the delay. We bumped the priority of this so it should get done much quicker. I don't have an exact ETA on this. I hope this helps.
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Just checking on whether there's been any movement on this suggestion--it was made nearly a year ago, and the interface is unchanged. This seems like a relatively easy fix to make, and would be a nice quality-of-life enhancement....
Best,
Christian -
Thanks for the feedback - sounds reasonable. We'll pass it onto engineering.
