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Rafal_Bainie
Community Advisor
Community Advisor
July 4, 2022
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Are you struggling with multiple columns on a report and would like to substitute some of the fields with flags?

  • July 4, 2022
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I recently encountered a challenge when redesigning some of my reports. Namely, some of them contain too many columns to make data legible.

Given the simplicity of content in some of them I figured I will substitute some of the fields with flags.

Problem appeared, I couldn't find a way to keep all the flags in one line.

Luckily I finally make this working with wrapping my "flag fields" with 2 extra columns that would overlay display with a bit of HTML.

Openning column (bolded crucial piece):

column.12.displayname=Details

column.12.sharecol=true

column.12.shortview=true

column.12.textmode=true

column.12.value=<span style="display: inline-block">

column.12.valueformat=HTML

Closing column:

column.16.shortview=true

column.16.textmode=true

column.16.value=</span>

column.16.valueformat=HTML

Result

Sharing this with community, hopefully this will make it easier for others

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3 replies

Level 4
July 6, 2022

Thanks for sharing this!

Level 4
July 11, 2022

Looks nice! Thanks for sharing!

Just for the inspiration, I'm wondering what information you are showing with the flags.

Rafal_Bainie
Community Advisor
Community Advisor
July 11, 2022

e.g.

phone call icon - when requestor asked explicitly for conversation before work start, value is set to yes, and flag turns green

description icon - with hover over function, so that user don't need to open task details, but can quickly preview the description straight from the report

last note icon - again hover over to check last posted update to quickly catch up on current status of the task

Level 4
July 11, 2022

Hi Rafal,

That sounds pretty neat. Could i see the text mode section for the description and/or last note to show the hover over?

Level 3
July 19, 2022

Love this, used this. Thanks for sharing!

I just wish there were more local icons available, because I can't link to most external urls, but colored dots will work for now.