MySQL Bugs: #79313: The new Columns tab is not user friendly!

Bug #79313	The new Columns tab is not user friendly!
Submitted:	17 Nov 2015 11:40	Modified:	24 Oct 6:03
Reporter:	Fotis Kokkoras	Email Updates:
Status:	Won't fix	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Workbench: Modeling	Severity:	S4 (Feature request)
Version:	6.3.5, 6.3.10	OS:	Windows (Microsoft Windows 10 Pro)
Assigned to:		CPU Architecture:	Any
Tags:	columns, tab, usability

Description:
The new Columns tab presents column settings as a grid of controls(checkboxes, etc) as in the past versions. In 6.3.5 a new area was added bellow the grid mentioned that presents controls to fine-tune the selected column.

As a heavy user of the model designer, I have to say the following:

1. The grid UI is much more usable and intuitive. It gives both the small and the big picture in one sight.

2. The only 'plus' of the additional UI is the huge comments space. I hope the exporting of comments now works - there were bug in previous versions. 

3. I suggest to have the additional UI presented in a pop-up, modal window, rather than the way it was implemented now.

How to repeat:
not applicable

Suggested fix:
Implement the single column presentation and tuning control in a pop-up, modal window, rather than the way it was implemented now.

My complain in a picture

Attachment: 17-11-2015 13-42-11.jpg (image/jpeg, text), 112.45 KiB.

Hello Fotis Kokkoras,

Thank you for the feature request!

Thanks,
Umesh

Posted by developer:
 
This request is specific to MySQL Workbench 8, which has reached EOL. The issue was noted in separate and will be resolved when the equivalent feature is implemented.