Column Order & Width Logic Advice

Stephen J. Orth (10/27/08 4:17 PM)

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I am looking for some advice on how others may be doing the following:

We utilize arrays for all our screens, along with ALP. We allow users
to

rearrange the columns, along with the width settings of each column.
We

currently store this information in the database, so that when a user

returns, all their screen settings are restored to their previous
session.

This has worked well for us, but we have occasional issues with our
logic,

especially when new columns are added to the screen, and then
reconciling

this with the user preferences.

I'm going to be rewriting this in V11, and would like some suggestions
from

people who are already doing this.

I'm curious about the following:

1. What "values" do you store in the database, so that you can later

reorganize the columns based upon the users preferences?

2. How do you deal with new releases, where new columns are added to
a

screen? What logic is employed to synchronize the existing user
preferences

data, with the new column(s) being added?

There are many more issues, but these are my initial areas of interest.

Thanks in advance!

Steve

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