Improve the Export Definition File Layout Report to accurately reflect updates/changes to the column order
At present, an export definition has its columns re-ordered from their original position as fields were added during creation, the Export Definition File Layout Report will not accurately reflect the export definition's column order. My organization uses this report and suggest that this report could be easily improved by having the report display the correct order of columns.
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- Jul 5 2018
- Will not implement
| Organization Name (Please enter full organization name) | University of Cincinnati Foundation |
| Reported Version | 4.0 |
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Column orders in export definitions are mindbogglingly random, and seem designed to make the process as useless as possible. When I choose a Number to Export greater than one, the fields are put in the OPPOSITE order of what is logical, so the last thing comes first, no matter how I sort the data. And if I have multiple columns for the same thing that is in the results multiple times, they don't even go into the output in the same order. And it is painfully timeconsuming to try to get them in the right order, with the consequence that if another field is ever added, the whole thing gets randomized again. I have had to write elaborate Excel macros to make your output even marginally useful. Can't you do SOMETHING to make this less painful?
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