Questions tagged [column-headers]
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Best Practice for Adding Columns to a Table View with Multiple Data Type Options
I am currently designing a new view of a table that sites within a legacy product. The user will add columns to this table which will pull data from different systems. There are 4 types of data they ...
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Elegant layout for a table with long row / column headers but simple cells
I have a table, possibly a very large table, where every cell is just a simple checkbox (e.g., click-dragging will check/uncheck a grid at a time). The table will have both row and column headers. ...
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Horizontal and vertical alignment of headers in property tables
We have a Web application with a right sidebar which shows a lot of vertically stacked cards with details (aka properties) of the main active entity. Each card contains a property table, where each ...
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Table column labels combined with subheaders
I am currently working on a digital form, and at one stage the user has to select one or more elements from a list of transactions. Each list element has multiple columns with different information.
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Best practises for tables with header titles in both axis (vertical/horizontal)
For tables/matrix in printed paper is very common to see the 2 axis/header titles separated by a diagonal bar
Also common to see in printed probability/impact matrix
However, HTML or excel(AFAIK) ...
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How to arrange columns in a table appropriately?
We are re-designing our dashboard. Currently, all table lists will start with column 1.'ID' then 2.'Name'.
The issue is, all users have a name but not all users have Reference ID, especially when ID ...
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Can I have multiple rows with <th> in a table
I recently read that a table can have multiple rows of < th > and pass validity. I have a narrow table and need to get < th > on multiple rows. When I test with NVDA it reads all the < th > ...
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How do I indicate that a column in a data table has been added or changed?
I have a data table where I let people toggle columns (Show/Hide)
A few columns also change based on the value of a dropdown the users select inside a modal that controls table settings
How do I ...
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Sorting by table column with dropdown in the header
I'm wondering if the following makes sense. Please note, splitting the information into separate columns is not an option due to too many columns.
Column 1: there are more time stamps the column ...
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What is the recommended header for a table column showing date and time? [duplicate]
I have a column in a table that shows date and time and I would like to know what is the recommended header. These are the current choices:
I prefer the last one but it doesn't explicitly say that ...
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Table headers style: repetition
If I have a table w/ a header:
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| IPv4 addresses wanted | IPv4 addresses used | IPv4 addresses wasted |
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Icons in table head - good practices
When to use icons instead of texts? Are there good practices related to the subject?
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Where to place headings/dimension names in table/matrix?
Let's say I want to show how many people graduated from my university. I know their fields of study and their degrees. I want to offer different views on this data, for example a chart, a flat table, ...
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Header on a table with grouped rows
I have a table that looks like this crude paint drawing
The table represents employees grouped by the company they belong to. I have a table header for the Company (name, address, city, state, etc.)....
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Column header name suggestions
I have a column in a table with each cell being a toggle switch (on/off),what would be an appropriate header for the column? Right now I have just called it as state
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How to let a user know of a clickable area
I'm creating an application (Android for starters) which will have a list. I want to create a special column headers that the user can press on (press on the entire column header section; not on each ...
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Displaying an item with many characteristics
I am creating an application for smartphones (Beginning with Android) which in its base core of data displaying, will have a list of a single item which can have many characteristics. Each ...
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How can users specify the sort order of a table in ascending/descending order with multiple sort keys?
I'm making a music player app and I have their list of songs with various properties like the title, track number, artist name, album name, etc. I need to let the user sort their library by these ...
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Should percent sign go into the header or the cells of a table
We've been debating this question with a client. In a table which displays percentages, should the percent sign % be displayed once in the header of the column Header (%) or in each of the cells 80 %.
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Naming columns in a table
I suspect that part of my problem is that I am not a native english speaker but here it is. I have a table with column header labels. One of these columns contains the "number of messages received". ...
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Should column labels for numbers be aligned right?
In a grid structure, I understand you should right-align numbers in the cells.
Should you also right-align the headers for these columns?
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What is an intuitive name for a date column that displays events that are either in progress or completed?
I have a table of data that I need to display to my users that contains events that are either in progress or completed. My problem is that the names that have been suggested for this column header ...
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Is it a good idea to use letters as column labels?
I ask myself, is it better for users to use a generic grid with letters as column labels instead of numbers ?
Excel, OpenOffice and Google Spreadsheet do it by default but I'm often confuse.
I have ...
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How to add custom columns in a multi column table?
I am designing a control where the 1st column, 'Investment Categories,' corresponds with lots of purposes shown on the right. The users need to be able to add additional Purpose Columns as they work ...
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Tooltip icon to the right of a table header?
Would tooltips icons to the right of table headers be used?
I have a table with short information on each column header. I don't want to clutter the screen with an icon [i] on the side of each header ...
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Handling wide column names when values are simple booleans?
I have a table of users. It has about 12 columns with titles such as "user name" and "start date". 5 of the columns relate to 'special permissions' that the user may be afforded. These permissions ...
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How to label Table Header Label Date vs. Date/Time
I have a table with a date time column. Right now the label reads "Closure Date" and it seems fine to me.
I was wondering it was better practice to label it something like "Closure Date/Time".
See ...
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Incorporating new (unrelated) data on an existing table
We have a big table where user enters hours for each day of a time period (14 slots for day inputs)
each row represents a task.
the Dev team wants to incorporate tasks from another system into that ...
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Should we use Microsoft's feature names, or our own? "Autofilter" vs "Column filter"
Many Microsoft softwares, like the Office suite and the Windows Explorer, feature a type of column filter that they have dubbed the Autofilter.
It filters rows based on column content.
It adapts the ...
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Standards or examples of graphically combining hover and sorting, in a column header?
I want to combine two things in the list header in our product:
Sort highlight like Spotify. We have a small sorting arrow indicator, but adding a highlight to the header of the sorted column makes ...
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Toggling columns
I have some questions about toggling columns:
in an older application, we have some columns that a user can toggle (regardless of available horizontal space). For example, the toggle between ...
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Is moving columns in a tree table automatically bad for UX?
I have a tree table that allows the user to group columns arbitrarily. Is it bad UX for me to move the grouped by columns to the front of the table right next to the tree controls? Would it be more ...
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How to sort on a single column; OR multiple columns at once (phase 2) [closed]
EDIT: I'm working on this page now and for the next couple of hours, so please don't bother looking at it.
I had many outstanding suggesting when I first asked this question five weeks ago.
The ...
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Keyboard shortcut to sort columns in a table?
Clicking on column headers in a table to set the sort order (or toggle ascending/descending if already sorting by this column) is a standard UI technique.
However, it is mouse-only. Is there a ...
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Best UI approach to align the column titles of reports
I would like to know what the best approach is to align header columns according to their data type.
I haven't found any Human Design Interface articles explaining this.
Should the header column ...
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