Getting around to installing all of our Thick Clients for 2024 and just realized after all of the beta testing that we did, that ALL grid state settings would be part of the distributed views. Well unfortunately they are NOT. As of this build, the only grid states that are affected with the update is the primary panes which includes Items, Project Explorer, and Change Order List. Any tabs that are in Preview Panes for each grouping above, are NOT included in the distributed views and have to be customized for all users.
The tabs are used just as much if not more than in the primary panes. For us, the Change Order Records tab is a necessity to have this the same for all users of a certain Distributed View group. It forces you to still copy .xml's to all users and in my opinion completely defeats the purpose of having Distributed Views. I thought that was the whole idea w/ Distributed Views was to eliminate having to deal with .xml's and make it easy to push out changes in the grid states to all users.
So, it is my requested is that all Preview Panes be added into the Distributed Views Utility ASAP. When you have a 100 workstations to customize, it only makes sense to include ALL grid states.
Best,
Steve Hilvers
Added Information
Steve and Irvin had a conversation and came up with two ideas.
Have the Custom View feature include all tabs of the object. For example, the Custom Views options for Items include the General, History, Bill of Materials, and other tabs of the Item. Likewise, with the File Explorer tabs, the History, Uses, Where-Used, etc. And, for Change Order List, all of the tabs specifically the Records tab.
The ability to distribute the Custom View from #1.
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