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A statistics software package powered by R
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Enhance the Column Structure dialogue in the prepare menu? #2946

Open rdstern opened 7 years ago

rdstern commented 7 years ago

We need to be able to define groups of columns, which SPSS does comprehensively. I assume this is (also?) to be within the Data Options sub-dialogue? But (like selecting rows - i.e. filters) it will also be within a dialogue.

The current Column Structure dialogue is already there. It is quite restrictive, with just the Layout/ Treatment/ Measurement specification. I wonder if that could be the default and a second "button" would permit user defined groups. Then we don't need another new dialogue.

I also note that this dialogue does colouring automatically. We already have a colour by property dialogue. I suggest the be put together - especially as we are now likely to lose column metadata from that part of the menu.

dannyparsons commented 7 years ago

There is also overlap here with the column metadata dialog where we could add a new property, as well as editing existing ones. We probably need to rethink these dialogs together.

volloholic commented 7 years ago

Some though needed here. I'm feeling that the column structure dialogue should really be part of a tailored menu which then enables that information to be used in the analysis.