Submitted by jimspoon on 2024/03/08 00:03

Working in a grid on a laptop, wanting to make sure that I have appropriate data entered in the columns in the current column set.  But I've got the columns resized too narrowly, can't see the column label.  At this point I think it would be really handy to have all the current columns.in a form.  I found that I can right-click the Grid tab > Manage Forms, which takes me the current grid in the Manage Forms dialog.  I can right-click that grid in the list and then Save Columns as Form.  Seems like it might be a good idea to have "Current Column Set" as a selectable form in the Properties Pane Forms list and also in the View Items by Form dialog Select Form dropdown box.  That way you could use the current column set as a form without creating a "permanent" form.  Or is this already possible somewhere?

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Hi Jim,

The Properties pane has a Grids section and the first sub-section is Current Grid. Does that do the trick for you? 

The Current Grid could be added to the Forms dialog, would you use it?
(it is a bit complex because the Forms dialog is not modal, but feasible of course 😊)

Wow, thanks, I just flat out missed that.  Not in the Forms section, but the Grids section.  But somehow I had a memory of that "form" being there, and I thought, why am I not finding that?  That should do the trick for me, probably doesn't need to be in the View Item by Form dialog too.

But I am also seeing something else that I don't remember - namely in the "Grids" section (not to be confused with the "Shown in Grids" subsection of the Item Properties section) there are two other grids shown.  I'm guessing these two grids might be the two most recently used grids besides the current grid?  Anyway I'll look that up.

Thanks again for your response.

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