Additional Options for Optional Field

Hello All,

we love the new feature in Yellowfin 9.17 that lets you mark a report field as optional so users can hide it! To avoid user confusion we would love to see it extended a little in two aspects:

Currently, making a single field optional shows the menu where users can reorder fields themselves. In simple reports this doesn't matter, but we do have several reports that would show miss-interpretable data if the order of fields changes. This mostly happens, if a reports extensively uses the "Supress Duplicates" feature on several field that are next to each other:

It would be great if you could use optional fields without giving the user the option to change the order of fields. Maybe as a toggle in the "report formatting" tab.

The second change we would like to see is a toggle that specifies if a hidden field should be remembered by yellowfin or not. If the user hides a field and closes/reopens the report, yellowfin currently remembers which field were hidden and which field have been reordered. This can be useful sometimes, but in general we would rather have yellowfin restore the standard options that the report designer chooses. We fear that hidden fields may get forgotten by some users.

Basically, we would like the same toggle that filters already have with the "Remember User Selection" option:

kind regards,

Niklas Weiler