Arranging Lists

Every list in FOG — hosts, images, snapins, tasks, the association tabs inside an edit page, and the lists a plugin adds — can be arranged to suit the work you actually do with it, and FOG remembers your arrangement.

The arrangement is saved against your user account, not against the browser, so it follows you to another machine and survives clearing your browser data. Two people looking at the same list can each have it arranged their own way.

What you can change

Move a column. Drag a column heading sideways and drop it where you want it. Put the columns you read first on the left.

Show or hide columns. The Column visibility button above the list lists every column with a tick beside the ones currently showing. Hiding the columns you never read makes the rest wider and stops the table scrolling sideways.

Resize a column. Drag the divider between two headings.

Sort. Click a heading to sort by it; click again to reverse it.

Rows per page. The selector above the list.

What FOG remembers

Saved per user, per list:

• the order the columns are in
• which columns are showing
• the sort column and direction
• how many rows per page
• whether the per-column search row is showing — the row itself, never what was typed in it (see Filtering Lists)

Each list is remembered separately, so the arrangement you give the host list has no effect on the image list.

What FOG deliberately does not remember

Filters and searches are not saved. Whatever you typed in the search box, built in the Filter panel, or typed in the Column search row is gone when you come back — see Filtering Lists.

This is on purpose. A filter that came back on its own would be invisible: the list would simply be missing rows, with nothing on screen to say why, and the obvious conclusion is that the data has gone. A layout you did not expect is something you can see and fix in a second; rows that are not there are not.

A filter you want back can be saved by name and applied deliberately, which puts a chip above the list naming it — see Saved Filters. That is the same rule from the other side: a filter is fine as long as you can see it is running and turn it off in one click.

Your timezone is remembered too

The timezone dates are shown to you in is saved the same way, against your account rather than your browser — see Display Timezone.

Starting over

To get a list back to how FOG ships it, show any columns you have hidden, drag the headings back, and set the sort and page length you want — the new arrangement replaces the old one as soon as you make it.

A saved arrangement also expires on its own after a year of not being touched, so a list you have not used in a long time comes back in its default shape.