Enhancement Request: Allow Wrap to be turned on in Reports

J. Craig Williams

I often come across columns in a Report that I would like see with Wrap turned on.

These are sometimes (usually) columns/cells that I do NOT want to turn Wrap on for the source Sheets.

Reports inherit their formatting from the underlying Sheets* and I realize this may be a difficult change to implement. However, I also believe there have been requests to have more user-configuration available on the Report side.

The ability to further add formatting or overriding existing formatting in the Report would be a separate request.

For my needs here, all I want to do is set the Wrap On or Off using the Column Context Menu.

For many of the times I would have liked to have this feature, changing the Wrap on the source sheet would be aesthetically unappealing. 

A specific example, I create a row that has development notes and documentation**. The text can be quite long. I do not want to wrap the text in the source sheet because the column may be very narrow which results in an extremely tall row.

Thanks

* I believe the Report Formatting has a bug, but I have not seen it in a while because (perhaps) I have simplified the formatting I use in Sheets. Or it was fixed. Or it never was a bug..

** This is also an additional feature request - the ability to hide rows and I know I can create a hierarchy and collapse it. Sometimes even Admins mess up by overwriting formulas inadvertently.

This request has also be posted to the Form

Craig

Shaine Greenwood

Craig,

Can you give me more info on the bug you found? Did you report the bug previously to our support team?

I may be able to track it down.

J. Craig Williams

In sheets, I had rows that had no formatting, but on the Reports, they did. They seemed to inherit the formatting from rows around them in the Sheets. Or from other Sheets. 

I don't remember when this was. A year or more,  I would guess. It might be in my notes, but since I haven't noticed it for a while, it has low priority for me. 

Around that time I had some customers that had gone a bit crazy on the formatting. 

Craig

 

J. Craig Williams

Update:

https://community.smartsheet.com/discussion/bug-report-formatting

The first record I found of this odd formatting behavior was end of Jan 2016.

Craig