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Matrix Preview / Column Word Wrap
Ah ha! Seems to be a misunderstanding on my part. I don't have a need to use the "Columns" as I am seeing the data how I wish to see it by adding my data items to the "Values".
I guess the answer to my issue are:
- I'm not sure I understand the differences between "columns" vs. "values" in the matrix preview.
- "Columns" and "values", in the current iteration of the matrix preview, both appear and behave as a traditional column, in my opinion.
- I didn't catch on that the column header word wrap feature doesn't affect "values"... even if values look like a column.
Now how can I promote this to get Microsoft to evaluate this as a possible feature enhancement?
Just to let you all know this has been fixed and will be resolved in a future update :)
The 'Values' area of the field well is for the measures you want to see in the matrix. They're repeated for each entry in the fields you put in the 'Columns' area. So, for example, if you put 'Sales' and 'Profit' in the Values area, and 'Year' in the Columns, you'll see Sales and Profit repeated for every Year in your data.
You don't have to put anything in Columns - in that case you just see each field in Values once. That's what you're seeing in your example, and it's where the bug was :)
Thanks for the feedback!
Additional to this - I cant see it referenced explicity in the thread but I have seen a variation of this behaviour which is euqally as frustrating.
Where you have resized columns within the matrix but then click on a column to sort (either deliberately or accidentally!) then the previous resizing is also lost. I have had quite a few annoying experiencing of resizing columns in a big table only for one mis-placed click to lose effort spent formatting it nicely! This especially seems to be problematic around the rightmost column that you try to resize where it is againt the right edge of the visulalisation almost evertime i go to resize this it looses the previous work
Hi - will this be in the next update for Desktop? June? this table is not reliable at all in current version
Many thanks for letting us know
Just as a FYI, to any Microsoft dev team looking at this, it is not possible to set the column widths of a "new matrix" even with auto size off, and row, column, and values. In essence the columns jump back to full width even if I'm sizing to something specific and the totals column gets really small.
With the July Release, are New Matrix column widths staying put for anyone else who has dragged the column space separators to set col widths?
