Add the ability to move table rows up & down

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Last Updated: 01 Nov 2016 14:38 by Pete

Pete

Created on: 17 Oct 2016 13:02

Type: Feature Request

Add the ability to move table rows up & down

Adjusting the order of rows in a table would be a lot easier if there was the facility to move table rows either up or down.
A further facility to move a table row to the top or bottom would also be useful.
The same facilities should also be duplicated for table columns.
Table rows & columns cannot be dragged and there is no cut & paste for the entire row/column. These should also be addressed.

2 comments

Pete

Posted on: 01 Nov 2016 14:38

If a row or column is moved, then anything nested inside it should also move. To rearrange a nested table, then the nested table should be selected and moved.
If a row that spans multiple rows is selected, then all of the 'Spanned' rows or columns should move.
I don't see this as requiring a complicated UI - Keep it simple.

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Milen | Product Manager @DX

Posted on: 01 Nov 2016 13:16

Thank you for your input. Such a feature makes perfect sense for a simple table setup, when you need to reorder the columns. In that case the hierarchy of the column groups consists only from sibling static groups and the desired outcome from column rearranging is well determined. This however is not the case when you have a hierarchy of nested groups and you initiate a movement. For example would you expect a row inside a nested child group moved down to become the last child sibling or to move outside the parent group? Such complex rearrangement will require a clever UI in order to provide clear expectations to the report author. 
This feature request aligns with the product scope, so it gets approved and is left for the community to vote for. It would be of great help if you could  write your exact scenario and expectations from such tooling.