How to Customise Your Column Displays in Jobman
One of Jobman's most powerful features is its column customisation options, which allow individual office users to adjust their software displays to suit their needs.
In this article:
Accessing Column Customisation Options
Accessing Column Customisation Options
To access your column customisation options, hover over any existing column heading, then click on the arrow icon:
Column Option Definitions
- Sort Ascending - Sorts the column data from lowest to highest (numerical values), or A-Z.
- Sort Descending - Sorts the column data from highest to lowest (numerical values), or Z-A.
- Filter - Use this option to type in a search term and display only the search results in this column.
- Columns - Opens a menu of all possible column options for this page. You can select/deselect columns that you wish to show or hide (see below).
- Show in Groups - This option will allow a number of columns to be grouped together to show. Currently this option is not available.
- Width - Allows you to adjust one or more column widths in your display (see below).
- Reset - This option will change all your columns back to their default settings.
Show/Hide Columns
If you click on Columns in your column customisation options drop-down, you will see a second menu which shows all the possible columns which you can enable for a given display:
- Select the columns you wish to show, and deselect the columns you wish to hide.
- Your preferences will be saved when you return to this part of the software.
Adjust Column Widths
If you click on Width in your column customisation options drop-down, you will see a second menu which shows all the possible settings to adjust your column widths:
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 the last screenshot as an example, the contact name is being cut off now, so you can fix this by using one of Flex 2, 3, 4, or 5 on that column. The numbers represent how much to increase the size of the column by, relative to the other items.
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.
Adjusting a Single Column Width
You can also click and drag any of the lines that separate column headings to expand or narrow an individual column width.
Adjust Column Positions
To reposition any of the columns in your display, simply drag-and-drop them as desired.
In the below example, to move the Number column to the left of the Description column, click on the Number column heading and drag.
The small box with the green tick indicates that you have selected the Number column.
The green arrows to the left of the Description column header indicate where the Number column will be placed once you release your cursor.
