Comment 2 for bug 1683385

I'd like to revive discussion on this bug because I'm interested in what others think, and based on Kathy's comment maybe this is the best place. Explicitly adding columns is what I've done here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1724965 but I don't know if that's the best path forward.

Having the columns info autogenerated is nice and clean coding-wise, but it just dumps in all the fields in that class, some of which aren't useful for that particular screen. And if you need more than one class (like in the Checkout screen, I think?) then you get uber-long column picker options which again, some of them aren't pertinent. It also doesn't let you do things like having a user barcode/username vs. the user's ID, which is friendlier.

I'm interested in others' thoughts if there's a better way to resolve all that.