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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IBM MAS - Manage (Base)
Categories System Admin Config/Security
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 29, 2021

RELATED IDEAS

Ad-hoc report text fields: Align-left instead of align-right (optional setting)

Maximo aligns ad-hoc report text fields to the right, instead of to the left.

Screenshot: https://i.stack.imgur.com/KrbtZ.png

That's different from most software platforms. Other programs like Excel, MS Access, and SQL clients align text to the left -- for easy reading and to differentiate text columns from number columns.


The right-alignment in ad-hoc reports makes it difficult to read text fields. Especially text fields that are hierarchical:

  • Classification hierarchy path

  • Asset or location hierarchy path

  • GL Account

  • Even a simple text field like a DIVISION field would be easier to read if it were left-aligned.

Could IBM give us the option to make text fields align-left in ad-hoc reports?

Idea priority Medium
  • Post comment
  • Admin
    Kim Woodbury
    Reply
    |     Mar 3, 2022

    Thank you for your submission. There are no plans in the next several releases to address this behavior.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Dec 10, 2021

    Make any non-decimal datatype field align left and let any decimal data type field align right. That would take care of 99% of the times I've had to go into a ad-hoc report and change field alignment.

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