Ability to change the style of given column(s)

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beautrycze
beautrycze Member, ALL USERS Posts: 3 Occasional Contributor
in User Experience

Currently I can only change the style (e.g. italics, bold) of line items when they are placed under rows but the ability to make changes to the particular columns or line items placed in columns would help to build easier to navigate tables for end users.

 

The style of line item should be visible when the line items are places in columns and also it'd be nice to have the option to change the column style even if it is not a line item. This could be done for specific column (e.g. I know that given country should always be bolded) or to be able to make this as a conditional formatting (e.g. the countries that have less than 10 employees should have their name in italics).

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  • TomekR
    TomekR Member, ALL USERS, Community Member Posts: 2 New Contributor

    yeah, this is very annoying, should be fixed...

  • beautrycze
    beautrycze Member, ALL USERS Posts: 3 Occasional Contributor

    Hi @Beccad

     

    I was able to test this on report page and this seems to work (please see my questions below), however, I am not able to use this functionality in the board. Report looks nice, however, it does not provide the same range of cards as board and it would be great to be able to use this functionality there as well.

     

    I also have few questions on how this functionality works on reports. I have chosen style Heading 1 (so that it appears as bold in board or backend) for my column A. However this column will only be bold if I select bold in Heading 1 in Format-Style-Heading 1. But I can also choose italics for this column even if the style is Heading 1 (so that in the backed it is still going to be in bold). Does that mean that the styles work differently on the report page and in one table i can have the same item as italics and in the other one it is going to use the module settings?

    Is the limit for configuration set to 7 styles? In the configuration window I can select different colours and fonts for each style (7 in total). If I had a table with 8 different columns and I would like to assign each column different colour, would I be able to do so?

     

    Thanks!

    Beata

     

     

     

     

  • beautrycze
    beautrycze Member, ALL USERS Posts: 3 Occasional Contributor

    Thanks Becca for the detailed response!

     

    The views can look different as in some of the ux pages you will see the settings from module itself whereas in report pages you can change them on UX itself. The reason I flagged that was because this can be very misleading and confusing during maintaining or implementing any changes to live pages.

     

    E.g. we have a project on which 4 developers work on. In few boards we use the default settings so they are consistent, however, on report page we amend them. One developer may decide to have Heading 1 to be bold, Headings to be red bold, whereas the second developer will do it in the opposite way for different charts.

    To remediate this issue we would either have the internal standards or agreements that would state that if you want to have bold red, please always style this column as Headings 2, etc. But again this is not ideal, cause the same module might be used on the board where the standard settings are used. The main issue is with the current naming convention and high risk of this being inconsistent across different charts/developers. The formatting or finding out how the given chart was formatted should be very quick to understand rather than so time-consuming.

     

    Thanks

    Beata

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