Quick Links to Columns from (App Preview)

Sometimes, finding the column in a table can be harder than one might assume…

  • Column_Names may be masked by a (Display Name)
  • A table may have 50+ columns
  • You may have no idea what it’s relatively called
    • So searching won’t help
  • The display name may be the result of some giant monster of a CONCATENATE() formula
    • So you can’t find it based on what you see in the app previvew

At that point, you’re pretty much down to using landmarks to find you way

  • Is there an image column?
  • What type is the column?
  • What types nearby?
  • How far down the form’s page is it (which could be very misleading)
  • Names of columns (or at least display names)
  • etc.

Trying to find a column like this can take awhile…


Inside the Google App Script Editor (new edition), if you hold the ctrl key down and hover over a function that’s being called - it becomes a hyperlink to that function.

  • So all you have to do is hold ctrl + click on the function to be taken to that function.

I would love to see something like this inside the App Preview panel

  • Hold ctrl and hover over the display name/description of a field…
    • and it becomes a hyperlink that takes you directly into that columns settings
    • By that I mean to open the Type Qualifier panel (the little pencil icon on the Columns panel)
  • Or perhaps some sort of floating button on the side next to the column (in the app preview)

Something to help us get to that column a bit faster would be much appreciated


As always: thanks for considering!
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Marc_Dillon
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Yes, please!

I didn’t know that, cool!

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Pratyusha
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