Field picker has a poor UI design flaw
George Elio
To main problems.
1) It shows how many fields are visible, that information is not helpful 99.99% of the time you are looking to see how many fields you have hidden vs how many are showing. If you check your main competitor ie: Monday.com and Airtable the have the correct implementations. see attached file for examples.
2) When adding and removing field again you are using the wrong UI control as this control is apporiate in a different implementation. The biggest issue in using this control is it is not a checkbox or toggle switch so when adding and then redisplaying fields you have to remember the original position of the field because when your remove it from the display it then puts it at the bottom. See attached of how the main competitors have the correct implementation of this. Feel like the field picker was implement by a computer science intern who had no idea what he was doing.
Jon Darbyshire
Hello George Elio! I have a few more questions for you:
- What specific features or functionalities from Monday.com and Airtable do you find most beneficial for field visibility?
- How often do you need to add or remove fields, and in what context do you typically perform these actions?
- Can you describe a scenario where the current field picker design significantly impacted your workflow?
George Elio
Jon Darbyshire Jon, here are my responses
1) There are 2 main benefits to the field visibility, I sometimes look for a fields in a table and when I cant find them I'm constantly looking to see if I have all fields visible, SS implementation of field visibility does not allow me to see if I have all fields visible or if I'm hidding some fields. Secondly I use more than one WorkOS so every time i come to SS i need to make an adjustment to my workflow as nobody in the industry implements their field visibility by show how many fields are being displayed because nobody cares about that we all want to know how many fields are being hidden from display. When look at other WorkOS vendors they all show you hidden filed count vs display field count. The other area this is a pain in the rear is when I'm creating new tables to making changes to existing tables and i'm constantly toggle fields on and off. i'm always asking my self are all fields visible and I never know without physically having to click and go look inside the list.
The second biggest flaw I can see with your current implementation is every-time I need to hide a field because I want to see less information, in order to restore it I usually have to take a big breath try to remember the field name so I can find in a list that is sorted alpha order then finally I need to remember the col position of the field so I can put it back GEEZ!!! as painful as a root canal. With any other WorkOS I dont need to remember fields names or position all I look for which which fields are turned of from being visible and then the only desciion I need to make is to turn it on or off.
Jon to put it in simple terms SS current implementation is a pain when using it, all you have to do is try a another WorkOS implementation and you will see the difference and ease of use.