Ability to copy Custom Table Resources

jacob.west

The Custom Table resource is a great tool for customizing your views, I've begun to use it in place of Report Writer Resource often.  However the one thing that would help is copying the Custom Table you create to other views as they can be a bit time consuming to create if you need multiples.

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humejo

This this this!!

You create a custom summary view to be used as a template for a bunch of departmental dashboards.  You get all of the common resources on there that you know every departmental dashboard will need and you now have a nice "template" to use for creating your departmental dashboards.  You copy that view a bunch of times, rename them all to their respective departments and begin customizing each one.  4 customized dashboards in you realize (or find out) that all of the dashboards need a custom chart/table of the same data...  great...  Now I must go manually create that custom table/chart over and over again. 

Being able to place the same customized chart/table on any view is highly needed and I can't imagine would be super hard to implement (I mean, you can already duplicate them within the context of a single view or web report.  Take that same functionality but allow it to be global instead.

Another great thing would be to allow the custom data sources we create for the custom tables/charts to be available when creating new tables/charts.  How cool would it be to just grab previously created data source conditions when creating your tables/charts?  That would greatly speed up the process (I actually think that this could be huge in that these saved data sources could be treated like objects that could be applied to all sorts of things like dynamic queries in groups, view/account limitations, alert trigger conditions, "Group By" areas in various administrative screens like "Manage Nodes" and the Custom Property Editor, etc...  If you think about it, all of those things are really just about using conditions to narrow down elements in the database.  Just simply unify all of that into these data source objects and make them available anywhere in the product where grouping/sorting/filtering is done.  Then, when you need to modify a condition, ALL of the items relying on that condition would be "automatically" updated.  This could be an amazingly beautiful feature if implemented correctly and robustly.  Its kind of like dynamic queries in groups but give them the full condition editor instead of the limited capability that dynamic queries currently have and allow them to be used everywhere in the product instead of just for the Add & Remove Objects section of group management.)