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Easily manage the contents of your storage account with Azure Storage Explorer. Upload, download, and manage blobs, files, queues, tables, and Cosmos DB entities. Gain easy access to manage your virtual machine disks. Work with either Azure Resource Manager or classic storage accounts, plus manage and configure cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) rules.
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Template for table storage column arrangement #8304

Open tim-myth opened 3 days ago

tim-myth commented 3 days ago

Preflight Checklist

Problem

The default column order is not desirable

Desired Solution

I have thousands of tables that have largely the same properties. I would like to specify a template for the default column order. My initial thought is a text field where I can enter a list of entity properties separated by commas/semicolons in the order I would like the columns to appear. If a column name/property is not in that list, it uses the normal alphabetical sort order.

Alternatives and Workarounds

No response

Additional Context

For example, I have numerous tables that have entities with these properties: alarmDateStart; alarmDateStatus; alarmStatus; ID; Name; TagID; tagAlarmHint; tagName. I really want to see the tagName property first. I can drag and drop or rearrange the table columns, but doing that for every table is a burden. I want Storage Explorer to have a textbox where I could enter the string "tagName; tagAlarmHint; Name; alarmStatus; alarmDateStart; alarmDateStatus", and then when it loads a batch of table entities, it checks that list. If a property is in the list, it appears in the order of that list. The remaining properties are default ordered.

craxal commented 2 days ago

@tim-myth This is a good suggestion. We'll look into your proposed solution.