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Enable "saving" of table view under the Contents->Data

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Mike_Koutnik
Frequent Contributor

I often find it very convenient to review and edit layer attributes right in the table the Data tab in item details. I usually only need some fields, so I hide the others. And I often need the fields in different order than in the attribute table. So I drag some fields, in a current situation, from the far right to the far left. Then I'm ready to go. The frustrating part is that this"configuration" of the table view doesn't persist. Even if I'm away from my laptop for a bit and the machine goes into sleep mode, the table is reset and I have to repeat the configuration again. Please add a capability to "save" the current table layout, and allow one to "check" an option to reapply that each time the table is opened. A reset option would also be helpful.

Related to this request, it would be very handy to allow drag and drop placement of fields in the field visibility list. And also those layout changes to "stick" across uses of the Data tab for that layer. When one has to move several fields, with numerous fields in the table, that is another big time and frustration save. 

One other enhancement relates to this use case. If one has a field whose width in the table is less then the width of some of its contents, the contents will wrap. All good there. But when I scroll to the right, and there are only fields that don't need to wrap, the row height snaps back to "normal." One might think that's a good thing, that more rows can be presented in less space. But often when this happens, the row I selected gets scrolled well upwards beyond the current visible rows. It can be difficult and frustrating to find it again. And then when you scroll back to the left, the opposite occurs. The selected row is now somewhere below the visible rows in the table. More frustration. My request is that if ANY fields in the table are being wrapped,  the same row height should be maintained regardless of whether there are any wrapped fields in the current set of visible columns.

Thanks.

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CalvinHarmin

This is somewhat related: I think the gist of this previous idea is to have the field order and visibility settings in the Data tab be persistent. 

https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-online-ideas/hiding-fields-using-data-tab/idc-p/1664084#M13462