Primary Column Options

Christopher.Ontkean

I am sure this has been said before but I would love the ability to expand the primary column choices from just text to also date columns. This would be really helpful for us folks in manufacturing when it comes to daily metrics.

David Horowitz

I'm surprised that date would be useful in primary, but of course there's some use-case. My gripe is, even when the column is locked to text/number, why not allow us to enable a dropdown list of options? For example, I want free-text in my primary column, but there are also a few important and often-used values which are especially meaningful, and I want the users to have those options in a not-restricted dropdown list (not least of all to control nomenclature, and thus ensure conditional formatting works properly, etc.). Seems like there's no particularly good reason this isn't available.

For you, wanting dates, I wonder if you could use the number that Excel assigns to dates. Excel assigns 01JAN1900 to the number 1 and every date afterwards is just the next whole number. So your post updated 12/05/22 is either 44693 or 44900, whereas today (06DEC2024) is 45632. You could do this with a formula in the sheet, datediff between the date and 01JAN1900, expressed as a number of days. Of course, to your point still, you couldn't have this very simple formula in the primary column.