IdeaJam(tm) : Intelligent Size Column

Notes Client / Mail: Intelligent Size Column

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:28:51 +0000

Author: Henry Ferlauto
Tags: size file
Idea:

This is one of those nice little things in Outlook.

The size column should automatically adjust its "unit of measure" depending on the size of the document.

Examples:

3,400 bytes should become 3.4 KB

525,456 should become 525 KB

1,234,567 should become 1.2 MB

This will help save screen real estate by keeping the width of the size column to a minimum.

re: Intelligent Size Column

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:36:56 +0000

Author: Grant Lindsay
Comment: A good idea, but it would break the sorting (assuming this is implemented as a formula.)

Alternatively, it could be a column design property. Display as described above, but retain the "true" value for sorting, lookups, etc.

re: Intelligent Size Column

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:59:48 +0000

Author: Kerr Rainey
Comment: There is a new column formatting option in ND8 for numbers: Bytes.

From ND8 designer help:

Bytes (K/M/G) formatting displays values as kilobytes (1024 bytes), megabytes (1024 kilobytes), gigabytes (1024 megabytes), or terabytes (1024 gigabytes), with the letter K, M, G, or T following the number. Kilobytes are displayed as whole numbers, and megabytes, gigabytes and terabytes are displayed with one decimal place. Values are rounded up or down, but are never less than 1K.
Number Display
0.00 0K
1000.00 1K
1535.00 1K
1536.00 2K
2559.00 2K
2560.00 3K
1234567.00 1.2M
1555555.00 1.5M
122222222.00 116.6M
1555555555.00 1.4G
3666666666666.00 3.3T

is it not used in the ND8 mail template? Odd.

re: Intelligent Size Column

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:44:49 +0000

Author: Scott Leis
Comment: I just checked, and the "bytes" format is used for the Size column in the ND8 mail template.
It seems this idea needs no further promotion because it's already done (unless we want it added in a ND7 minor release).

re: Intelligent Size Column

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 13:04:57 +0000

Author: Kerr Rainey
Comment: Hi Henry,

Do you want to mark this as withdrawn since it's already in ND8?