Comment 4 for bug 1722387

We talked a bit about column pickers at the hack-a-way. I was working on https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1735808 at the time, but I didn't make as much progress on it as I had hoped.

The header option was raised, but it sounded like it wasn't something that was easy to do. I think we do have some that are sorted by idlclass then alphabetically (Item status maybe)? but the label doesn't always make it clear which class you are in.

At the hack-a-way, I think there was consensus that if we explicitly included specific fields, we would have the opportunity to label them in a way that would make it clearer what we were looking at. What I was hoping was that the list would sort in the order that they were listed in the tt2 file.

However, that's not working. See bug 1731278.

I think my preference would be to 1) explicitly identify all of the columns that should appear and 2) to have the sort order be the order in which they are entered in the tt2 file. The problem with #1, of course, is that it takes a lot of time to identify all those fields.

Alphabetical is an improvement over random, but, in some cases, I think we want more important fields to show above other fields that are less likely to be used.