The recent updates to the GDE (grouping and relations) are excellent @Jason and continue to make it so simple to just βthrow your data aroundβ. Itβs a real differential for Glide. But I have to ask, with all this GDE goodness, is nobody frustrated that they canβt just add a column βhereβ rather than at the end? Particularly now that column order is important in terms of the grouping. What do you think? Quick fix ? For Christmas?
Actually, if youβre already using column grouping, then itβs easy.
Letβs say you have a group called βpersonalβ and you want to add an extra column to that group.
All you need to do is filter the columns by your group name, and then add your column.
It will be tagged to the end of that group, and from there itβs easy to further adjust itβs position if you need to.
One of the little quirks of the new collapse/expand feature is if all your similarly named columns arenβt together, then youβll see multiple instances of your group name when you collapse it.
I made a short video showing how to work around this yesterdayβ¦
Yeah. I see that. But when youβre doing this LOTS it just kinda βbreaks the flowβ for me. It just seems like a relatively straightforward tweak that would result in a big benefit in terms of usage.
I must admit, Iβm still trying to figure out the best way to work with this. I like it, but I still find myself going back to my old ways - which is to almost permanently work with the GDE in a filtered column state.
Yeah. Itβs so close to perfect. For me the grouping is amazing because Iβve been using the β/β separator for a long time AND (probably because Iβm too fussy) always putting my columns in the correct order (which has involved a lot a dragging / filtering). So when @Jason introduced this new grouping all of my data was grouped perfectly (in single groups) immediately. But I still have to filter and / or drag to get it that way. If heβd only open up the source code then I could probably knock it up myself in a couple of mins β¦
I hear you, I have a 1300+ column table and am also a stickler for having them in perfect order. The majority of them are computed columns, (created in the GDE), so my life has been rough the last few weeks