User Customisation Of Columns

A very powerful feature available for Office Users in Jobman software, is the customisation of columns feature. This allows you as an individual user to activate, hide or customise the data columns to how you wish to view these on your device screen.

Office Users can access the customisation of columns feature in the software, by hovering over an existing column heading, then as shown below click on the highlighted down arrow icon to expand out the column options.

Column option definitions

Sort Ascending - Sorts the specific column data two ways, values from lowest to highest and letters A-Z.
Sort Descending - Sorts the specific column data two ways, values from highest to lowest and letters Z-A.
Filter - This is a column data search option, where you can type in values or letters to narrow in on just the data you would like to review.
Columns - This option unwraps all the available data columns that can be further filtered active or not active to display on the screen.
Show in Groups - This option will allow a number of columns to be grouped together to show. Currently this option is not available.
Width - This allows you to customise some or all of the column widths, formatting the data to display better for the user.
Reset - This option will reset all the applied/save column customisation settings back to the default settings.

Office Users can either activate to see more or deactivate to hide columns. To access this feature, simply scroll down to Columns, and when you hover over this option, it will expand out all columns available in the area you are currently in. You can then filter or un-filter the columns that you wish to see or have hidden, and once filters are applied, these settings do auto save just for your staff profile only.

Users can set the preference for the column width, scroll down to Width, once you hover over this option, you will expand out the option to Fix All or apply Flex options, in which will auto position column headings and column data.

Flex 2, 3, 4, and 5 - what do they do?

"Flex" is a technical term that refers to how columns automatically adjust their width in relation to one another.

The normal setting for column widths is "Fixed", which means the column is set to a 'fixed' width, which means that if you have only a couple of columns visible, all the content will appear to the left of the grid, but if you have a lot of columns visible, you may have to scroll to the right to see the content:

When you choose "Flex all", it will attempt to fill the space by adjusting the width of the columns equally. No matter how much they adjust, the width of column 1 is the same as column 2

This is handy because it reduces the need to constantly resize things to make them fit, however, often you don't want columns to all be equal widths. Using my last screenshot as an example, the contact name is being cut off now, so I can fix this by using one of "Flex 2, 3, 4" on that column. The numbers represent how much to increase the size of the column by, relative to the other items.

So, for example, a column that has Flex 2 applied will be approximately 2x larger than a column that has Flex 1 applied to it.

Similarly, a column with Flex 4 would be approximately 2x larger than a column that has Flex 2 applied to it, and 4x larger than a column with Flex 1 applied to it.

This allows you to prioritise showing columns that often have more information in them, such as names, descriptions, notes etc, without having to scroll to the right to see all your columns.

Adjust Column Positions

Users do also have the option to swap the position of columns around. This is a click, drag and then drop feature, where you simply click/hold down on a column heading, drag it to the new position then drop (release) the curser. The below example shows the Number column being taken from the right, dragged into where the green up/don arrows are to the left of the Description column.

Option also to customise an individual column width, which will allow increase or decrease in the column width. To use this feature, you will click and hold where the column header line separates each heading, then you can expand out or shrink in the column width.