Better settings for customising the appearance of the Table component

[mikesealey]

Describe the feature request This feature request has been written on behalf of a customer, via the CSE team

• I would like to be able to hide the row index column

• I would like to have greater control of the overall height of the component - if there are 700 rows I would like it to expand to show all rows and make the screen/page scroll instead of the table component. The current workaround is custom CSS:

  return `height: ${$("New Data Provider.Rows Length") * 36 + 200}px!important;`

• I would like to be able to remove the un-used white space at the end of the rows in a table

More from the customer:

• Please note that I'd like to see the production version have the option to remove the scroll bar from the table.
• I refer to the fact that both the table and page have a scroll bar, but I only want the page to have a scroll bar. Having 2 scroll bars may confuse users because they could believe they were at the bottom of the table, but in fact have more to scroll through using the other scroll bar. I've observed this situation in my testing. There is little else on the page but the table, so I don't need to save vertical space for other things.

[linear[bot]]

BUDI-8523 Better settings for customising the appearance of the Table component

[Stropdasman]

More suggestions for Improvements:

1. Hide Type Indicator (T)

Issue: The type indicator (T) takes up a lot of space.
Request: Add an option to hide the type indicator.

2. Preset Display Column

Issue: There is no option to set a specific column as the display column by default.
Request: Allow users to preset a column to be the display column.

3. Hide Display Column in Internal/SQL Tables

Issue: When using an internal table or SQL table, the display column is not hideable.
Request: Make the display column hideable in these scenarios.

4. Enable Sorting by Column Headers

Issue: Sorting functionality is not the same as in old tables. Currently, clicking on the header does not sort the columns.
Request: Enable sorting by clicking on the column headers, similar to old tables.

5. Search Method Adjustment

Issue: The current search method uses "STARTS WITH."
Request: Change the search method to use "LIKE" instead or make it configurable.

6. Fit Table to Screen Width

Issue: Tables do not fit the screen width properly; they either overflow when strings are too long or do not use the full width when strings are too short.
Request: Add an option to make the table fit the screen width dynamically, regardless of string length.

7. Add text alignment

Issue: Tables do not support text allignment. Request: Add an option to set the allignment.