ClaudiaPHI
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8 years ago Suggestions:
- For the csv and fixed-width datastore there is a preview of the datastore in the datastore configuration dialog. It may be an explorable option to directly enter the customized names there. But only if this can also be done for excel datastores.
- Make sure that if a custom column naming strategy is used a custom names are available for only a sub-set of the column names the other column names still use their original column names, where now they are null.
In the context of https://github.com/datacleaner/DataCleaner/pull/1472 we made it possible to configure custom column names for a number of datastore types. Currently this is located inside the datastore configuration dialog. For some reasons it seems to better fit in a separate dialog: It can take up a lot of space, especially when there are lots of columns, causing the datastore dialog to burst out of its window. You are really only able to effectively configure the custom columns when all other datastore related settings have been configured. Therefore it seems like a good idea to add another button next to Save datastore which is activated when sufficient settings to be able to preview the datastore have been configured, which opens a dialog where you can configure the custom column names and preview its effect.