Editing Columns

On the project page, click , and then click Edit columns. Click one of the following options to edit the project columns:

• Click Trim all the leading and trailing white spaces to remove all the white spaces at the beginning and end of a string.
• Click Trim leading white spaces to remove all the white spaces at the beginning of a string.
• Click Trim trailing white spaces to remove all the white spaces at the end of a string.
• Click Convert empty string to null to convert the empty strings in your project to null. See Terminology for more details about null.
• Click Reorder/Remove columns to remove or reorder columns:
  • To reorder a column:

    In the Drag columns to re-order panel, drag a column to the order that you want to change.

  • To delete columns:

    In the Drag columns to re-order panel, drag the column that you want to delete to the Drop columns here to remove panel, and the click Remove all to delete the selected columns.

• Click Merge multiple columns to merge the selected columns to one column:
  1. In the Merge columns dialog, drag the columns that you want to merge to the Added columns panel.
  2. In the Name of the new column field, enter a name for the merged column
  3. In the Delimiter field, enter a delimiter such as a semicolon (;) to separate cell values displayed in the merged column.
  4. Select the Trim check box to
  5. Click OK to merge the selected column according to your configurations.
• Click Merge multiple number columns by aggregation functions to merge number columns to one column according to the aggregation result:
  1. In the Merge columns dialog, drag the columns that you want to merge to the Added columns panel.
  2. In the Name of the new column field, enter a name for the merged column
  3. In the Delimiter field, enter a delimiter such as a semicolon (;) to separate cell values displayed in the merged column.
  4. Select an aggregation method from the Aggregation function list.
  5. Click OK to merge the selected column according to your configurations.

     For example, you have a project records the Math exam score, English exam score, and History exam score of a class. You can merge the English Score column, the Math Score column, and the History Score column to a Score column that records the average score. To do merge these columns, you have to configure column merging settings as follows:

     

     As shown, the columns that are merged are not deleted. If you want to delete the English Score column, the Math Score column, and the History Score column, you have to delete them one by one.