suggestion on titles given to lookup columns

LabKey Support Forum (Inactive)
suggestion on titles given to lookup columns jeckels  2011-01-13 09:57
Status: Closed
 
Hi Ben,

I agree that we end up with some pretty nonsensical column headings with the current behavior. There are places where we explicitly disable this prefixing, but in the vast majority of grids we don't.

I worry a bit about grids where you have columns with identical (or similar) names, where one is from the base table and another is from a lookup. For example, you can imagine having a grid with three "Name" columns from three different tables, or two "Name" columns and two "Description" columns. Perhaps this would be less confusing than the current behavior though. Or perhaps we should only prefix if there are columns with the same name?

What do you think?

Thanks,
Josh