We have tried several iterations (%, pixels) of using the View Width property on a field, and it appears that it changes absolutely nothing on Views. It seems to possibly change the width on reports but then when printing the report, it defaults back to the default width. Do we have to set it for ALL the fields in the View? I assumed it would take the width specified for this field and adjust the other columns appropriately. Any thoughts?
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Hi Parker,
Can you give me more detail on what you are experiencing? Are you setting the width to a smaller or larger amount than the column is taking in reality? Maybe a screenshot would also help.
Thanks,
Matt
Project Summary field set to 200%
Matt,
At Good Done Great, we have several specific requests around this subject:
Bottom line, I think that the platform needs improved views & printouts:
- Provide a way to set the point-size of a field as displayed in a view. The point-size should control the display of the record-value of the field, but the column header should remain the same point-size as the other column headers.
- Apply the point-size heading to printed and pdf'd views, as well as to online views.
- Make it possible to print and pdf views in landscape mode.
- Make it possible to word-wrap column header
Is this something that is already on your product roadmap?
Try using more realistic size: 90%. I don't know how server should react on 200% width.
PDF reports now have option to render in landscape mode.
Other suggestion may be addressed in new UI (we should ask Matt).
Saw this post from 3+ years ago, but I'm having this problem, too. Even on wide displays there seems to be no way to alter column width on list views. This is a big UI obstacle to making list views an adequate tool. Any fixes on the horizon?
Thanks,
Greg
p.s. it should be possible to set the view width and have the text of the field label in the column header wrap to fit. Otherwise a column is automatically wide if the label is long, even if you want the column itself to be narrow.
Hi Greg,
Are you using classic UI or NewUI?.
We recently added support for this feature in NewUI. When you set view width for a field that honored while rendering list view grid in NewUI. If no width set column header width decided based on column label text. But you should be able to resize your column by using column re-sizer option. you see this option when you mouse over column separator line. Once you resize the column it get saved as user preferences. From then column uses resized width. All these features available only in NewUI.
In Classic UI (OldUI) still view width has no effect.
Thanks,
Vimal.
Thanks, Vimal. I am using the classic UI, but my main need is to be able to control view widths for portal pages. If I switch to NewUI, will that also affect the way portal pages display?
Greg