"I would like to have the capability to adjust the width of columns in the collection table
I would like the ability to adjust, expand, or shrink columns by using the mouse when viewing the table in the 'Documents' section of the collection.
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Andrew
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> it's honestly one of the most basic features you could think of
It kinda is, IMHO.
OTOH, Mongo Compass is kind of a toy app aimed at non-technical users who are like "eww, I don't want to think about *schemas* and *data structures* and computer-programmer stuff; I just want to put my data in the db and *deliver business impact*!". And there's a balance to be had here, between supporting advanced use, and making things easy for beginner users. I can see a scenario where, if column widths were adjustable, a business user might resize a column to be pretty wide in order to view certain data items with long string representations, and then forget that they did that, and then be like "ugh, why is this tool mostly showing just one big column with a lot of whitespace, why can't I just see my *data*, why can't they just make this *simple*?" So I can see why there's some reluctance here.
On the other hand, a tabular result set display is a lot like Excel, and if there's one thing that business users know, it's Excel. Adjustable column widths are a long time pretty basic feature of Excel, and business users are familiar with that. So even in the case where there's a big column taking up all your screen real estate in the Compass display, I think a business user would be able to figure out without assistance that you could make that column smaller (using a drag control in the UI), and thus give more of the screen real estate to other columns.
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Sanika
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Yeah, it's honestly one of the most basic features you could think of. Freaking Robo Mongo has had it for millennia and Robo Mongo is open source.
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William
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Yes! It's supremely frustrating to not be able to see an entire ObjectId in a column (among other types). I have to switch views in order to quickly scan a group of documents
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블루
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I strongly support this feature!