Column List Profile: Improve making a new one when you already have at least one

[RDmitchell]

If you already have at least one column list profile, making a new one is not very intuitive.

Here is how I have been doing it.

• From Property Inventory List page, click on Column List Profiles
• The column list profile currently used in the Inventory List that you just came from is displayed
• Click on the New button
  
• Enter a name for the new profile and click Create Profile
• The new name is displayed in the pulldown for Column List profile
• None of the fields are checked
• The fields are in, I guess, alphabetical order -- where does this list of fields come from ??
• Go to the Inventory page -- no fields are displayed
• Click on actions / Show Only Populated columns
• Now you have at least the start of fields for this new Column List Profile
• Go back to the Column List Profiles page to order and check the fields you actually want as part of this profile

[RDmitchell]

It might be nice to try to figure out a better way to do it .. ??

Maybe have an option in Column List Profiles screen to

• Copy an existing one and tweak it ... not sure if this is useful but might be
• Be able to do the Action/Show Only Populated Columns after making a new profile? Not sure the program knows where it came from, ie, the inventory list, to do this ... so not sure that's useful
• As part of the Show only populated columns, ask the user if they want to make a new column list profile based on the results of that Action?

None of these are probably that wonderful, and maybe we need to get some user feedback.

But I did want to document how I am currently making new profiles.

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[RDmitchell]

@kflemin -- this is something we might want to address in this coming quarter?

One option is just to add a "copy" option, so that an existing Column List Profile can be copied, given a new name, and then the fields can be changed, rather than ending up with a completely blank set of fields to start with.

[RDmitchell]

instance: dev1 SHA: 87dd50ae1 Org: LBNL Test 200

Now, when you click the blue pencil icon in Column List Profile to make a new profile, it basically makes a copy of whatever column list profile you were previously viewing, gives it a new name, and you can edit it from there.

Thanks