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gmar
11-28-2008, 12:37 PM
I would really appreciate if there would be a better way to get an idea of the item's content residing inside a folder. Outlook e. g. uses list items having 2 lines to show more information (see attached Outlook11PreviewPanel.jpg).

I know, one can configure the child item pane to show the Item Text attribute, but it's a column of a 1 line record only. Also I found out, that UR raises a popup showing more of the content when mouse gets over the Item Text column - really fancy feature!

But does not come up to see the first few content lines of all items at a glance.

Will there ever be a chance to see a child item pane showing also the first few lines (configurable?) of the content per item below the currently shown columns?

gmar
11-28-2008, 12:40 PM
The above mentioned image.

quant
11-28-2008, 02:44 PM
you could set "wrap long cell text" in the settings, but that would probably not be very nice.

ps:
I don't use outlook, but seems that it also shows only the first line, and not 2 as you mention ;-)

gmar
12-04-2008, 04:02 PM
Wow - that's (almost) what I need.

Attached an sample urd to explain what I meant previously. There you can see that when an wrapped item text column is shown in the child item pane this leads into a lot of unused space at the columns having less informational content.

The outlook snapshot from above shows that they use a list control where list items show attributes on more than one line (e. g. the marked item in the inbox folder from above shows the sender "Jensen Harris", a date/time and below the subject which spans the whole second line).

So maybe Kinook could think over enriching the child item list in a similar manner.

Apart from that the wrapped item text column in my attached sample urd shows additionally a need for some minor improvements concerning item text of non-text items:

(1) special characters/formats result in a visually irritating boxed character - simply replace by an space(?)
(2) remove starting line feeds until the first line containing information
(3) trim multiple line feeds to a single one

Maybe there is chance to get the non-text item-text improvements implemented?