Tables - Update: Highlighting changes

[hogi]

What inspired this wish list request? 

While waiting for a universal update tool (Join, Concat and Update - JMP User Community),

it's already great so have now with Jmp 17 a Preview Area in the Tables - Update Platform.

This functionality helps a lot to check and adjust the setting "on the fly".

What is the improvement you would like to see? 

Please implement a functionality in the Preview area.

- highlight added columns

- highlight columns with changes (the amount of changes could be indicated with different color intensities)

- highlight changed entries

Why is this idea important? 

The preview is already great. Thanks to the development team - wonderful idea!

But it's still a bit dangerous.

The columns in the main table look exactly the same - no matter if there were changes or not.

A user who wants to add some specific columns could ignore the Replace part.

This is particularly dangerous as the default setting or Replace is "All" - so kind of: biggest harm possible for any unexperienced user you didn't care.

Highlighting the newly added Columns will help in addition to better see the changes.

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[hogi]

This feature is extremely important for new Jmp users -  as the platform starts with Replace columns: ALL!

Just imagine how many users destroyed their main table because they wanted to ADD a column - but did not notice that they have to disable the Replace ALL columns.

And just imagine how many users changed their main table without noticing ...

[hogi]

In our company we replaced Table/Update with a harmless version which starts with Replace Columns: None.

Besides that, just 2 Kudos in > 1 year.

@Sarah-Sylvestre : this topic can be archived.

[hogi]

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