Calculated Field Dialog Box Taking Full Screen

Hi Team,

Currently, when we click on “Add Calculated Field,” the dialog box for the calculated field takes up the entire screen, making it difficult to navigate back to other sections of the analysis without saving or closing it.

Challenges:

When encountering an error in a calculation, there’s no way to go back to the analysis to check the status of the calculation and identify what needs to be fixed. If you close the dialog, there’s no autosave option, which means the calculation can be completely lost.

Instead, if the dialog box for adding calculated fields were to float like a text box, similar to other visual types, it would provide default size options and make it more convenient to use.

This way, we could keep the calculation dialog box in place while still being able to view the analysis screen. This would allow for ongoing additions to the calculated field, giving us the flexibility to add and update calculations without losing context.

Having a floating dialog box for calculated fields would enable us to position it anywhere on the screen, enhancing the overall user experience.

This is an important feature please look into this.

Picture -1 : The dialog box for the calculated field is taking entire screen.

Picture -2 : The dialog box for the Text Box is floating, allowing us to resize it.

Picture -3 : If you look at the Tableau Calculated Field dialog box, you’ll see that it is also a floating window that can be resized based on your requirements. Please have a look

Tagging all of you for your suggestions on this

@Brett @Sanjeeb2022 @DylanM @Deep @Kristin @prantika_sinha @Jesse @ArunSanthosh

Thanks & Regards
Biswajit Dash

Hi, @Biswajit_1993, I tagged this as feature-request. Thanks for all your feedback and for documenting this!

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Hi @Kristin , I just want to add one point here if we have 10 feature requests accumulated this month, could you let us know how many have been implemented? If you could publish that information, it would give us a clearer picture. Could you please take the initiative on this?

Additionally, when community members ask questions, it often leads to many feature requests, but there isn’t an article addressing the implementation side. If you could provide a summary of all new feature request implementations on a quarterly or monthly basis, it would be a great help to us. This way, we could reduce repetitive requests on the community site.

Thanks & Regards
Biswajit Dash

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Hi @Biswajit_1993,
Thank you for your suggestions and drive to make the community more user friendly.
Since this has been tagged as a feature request already, I’ll go ahead and close out this topic. However, if you have any additional comments, feel free to create a new post in the community!

Thank you