New Manual Journals - Increase column width
The latest manual journal update doesn't show enough of the description field to be able to read. It also won't allow us to enter down in the description, it just adds it all in 1 long line.
We should be able to increase or decrease the width of each column.
Julia Trevean
shared this idea
Thanks for taking the time to suggest this, Julia. A flexible column sizing and multi-line descriptions could make working with detailed manual journals more efficient, especially when reviewing longer entries.
I’ve updated the status to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking community interest. If this would improve your workflow, add your vote and share your use case.
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Kate Hannigan
commented
I agree, the new layout is absolutely terrible to look at and use.
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Belinda Tomlinson
commented
Yes I agree, this is a terrible new layout, and not practical at all to complete repeating journals etc. You cannot see the account name properly. SO can cause errors very easily
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Rebecca Fox
commented
The tracking field needs to be widened to display all characters in the field. It’s hard to read in full without clicking on the line to display what has been selected
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Wendy Angliss
commented
This is almost unusable. As others have said it is very difficult to see narration and we need to EDIT this field to add a few characters of unique info for the various rows. When Xero significantly changed other pages we had the option to revert for a while as you fixed up unforeseen problems that users raised. Please do the same here.
Other significant impacting problems include not being able to change the column width. One example of why this is important -> More screen real estate could be given in a particular journal for the fields that really change in that journal instead of lots of white space around other fields that might be shorter, known, setup with smart text choices (e.g for me tracking code & tax rate).
Please reinstate old version while you return the functionality we use and need. It will become very costly for business if we have to adopt an additional work practice like copy narration into word/excel for editing and copy back each line. Yours in good faith. -
Julie Vogel
commented
I agree!!! The new journal format sucks!! The description column is so narrow I can't see the wording...narrow up the other columns please...tax rate and tax amount columns way too wide - who cares about those...
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Filiz Hilmi
commented
Since the journal page was updated, it's no longer possible to drag the columns horizontally. This makes it difficult to view all of the information within my tracking categories, as some of the details are no longer visible. Could this functionality be restored, or is there an alternative way to view the full details?