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Status Future consideration
Workspace IBM i
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 17, 2017

Save and restore Object Table columns

The Object Table has an option to "Re-open to previous state" that usually remembers the CONTENT of the table and restores it the next time RDi is started. It would be really nice if it would also remember the column widths and restore those too. I usually get some default very narrow columns at startup. On some rare occasions it actually will try to set them to something but the column widths appear to be selected at random.


Use Case:

I set the column widths so that they look good with my font (I use a fixed-pitch font). I minimize the Object Table view to get it out of the way, do some more work, close all open members and then close RDi. At next startup, the column widths are very narrow; the first column is wide enough for just the icon, the second column is wide enough for 1 character, and the third is only wide enough to display 3 characters of text plus an ellipsis indicator; the rest of each row is unoccupied (no column present). It would be nice if the columns were like I left them.


Idea priority Low
  • Guest
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    Jun 19, 2020

    We have reviewed this requirement and we feel it would be a beneficial enhancement to the product. We hope to be able to add it to our development plans in the future.

  • Guest
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    Mar 3, 2017

    Although the theme of this request is consistent with our business strategy, it is not committed to the release that is currently under development.