Table columns
Reorder or hide the columns of a table, keep that layout on every device you sign in on, and — as an admin — set the layout and sort order your whole organization starts from.
Every table with a Columns button in its toolbar can be laid out the way you read it: drag the columns into the order you want, and switch off the ones you never look at.
Your layout is saved to your account, not to the browser, so it follows you to a second machine. It starts from whatever default your organization's admins have set.
Sorting works differently from the columns. Select the sort button in a column heading, choose Asc or Desc, and the list re-sorts for as long as you are looking at it — it is not saved to your account. What the projects list opens on is the order your organization's admins set, described below.
Each table keeps its own layout, so the order you set on the projects list has no effect on the documents register.
Tables with a Columns button today:
Projects in the left sidebar, in list view — the button sits between the filters and the list/board toggle
The documents register and the drawings register in Documents, and the same two registers inside a project's own Documents tab
Board and schedule views have no columns to lay out, so the button appears in list view only.
Change your own layout
Open the table and select Columns in the toolbar. The menu lists every column in the order the table shows them, left to right.
Drag a column by the grip on its left to move it up or down the list — up is further left in the table.
To move a column without a mouse, focus it with the arrow keys, then hold Alt and press ↑ or ↓.
Clear a column's checkbox to hide it. Select it again to bring it back.
To hide or show every column at once, use All columns at the top of the list. A dash means some columns are hidden; select it to show them all.
Close the menu. Each change saves as you make it.
For example, to read a project's number before its name on the projects list: open Columns, drag Project number to the top of the list, and close the menu.
Expected result: the table redraws in your order straight away, and the same order is there when you sign in from another computer.
One column in each table — the project name, a person's email, a document's file name — identifies the row. It has no grip, and its checkbox is fixed on: other columns move around it, and it cannot be hidden. Because it always stays, All columns shows a dash rather than an empty box even when every other column is hidden.
To undo your changes, select Columns, then:
All columns brings back everything you hid, keeping your order.
Reset to organization default (or Reset to default layout, when your organization has set none) drops your layout entirely.
Set the default for your organization
Organization admins and owners see one more section in the menu. It applies to the table you have open.
Lay the table out the way your firm should see it, and sort it the way they should read it.
Select Columns. Under For everyone in your organization, Now sorted by names the order your firm is on today, and the save item names the one this click would publish — for example Save these columns and the sort, with Sorted by Project number ↑ beneath it.
Select it.
Expected result: everyone in your organization opens the table on your sort, and everyone who has not laid that table out themselves sees your columns — including people who join later.
For example, to have every architect in the firm open the projects list by project number: sort the projects list by Project number ascending, then select Columns > Save these columns and the sort.
On a table Cogram cannot sort, the item reads Save these columns and only the columns are published.
Colleagues who have already laid the table out their own way keep the columns they set — a column default is a starting point, not a rule. The sort is different: it is the firm's, so everyone opens on it. Anyone can re-sort what they are looking at, and the list is back on your order next time they open it.
Clear the organization default removes the columns and the sort together. Anyone still on the default columns returns to Cogram's standard order, and everyone — colleagues with columns of their own included — goes back to the table's own sort.
Ask the assistant
The assistant can do the same thing. "Put the project number before the name on the projects table" changes it for you; "…for everyone" sets the organization default, which the assistant can only do if you are an admin or owner.
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