Moving/reordering inside groups near impossible

[Jolanrensen]

In addition to #1021 it's very difficuly to move/reorder columns inside a column group.

Let's say we have:

move to(Start) moves the column outside the group. This could do with a "keepInsideGroup" argument:

We have move after, which works, but is a bit weird to use if you actually need a move before (which we don't have yet):

"regrouping" doesn't work in one step; the order specified is not taken into account by selecting:

you would need to ungroup first, then regroup, requiring two steps...

Reordering does seem to work, but it's weird too because you need to "reorder by" something, so like the order in a list or a number:

[koperagen]

IMO this ticket describes too different things. I'd keep only move to(Start) moves the column outside the group. This could do with a "keepInsideGroup" argument: proposal - it will be easier to decide

[koperagen]

This could do with a "keepInsideGroup" argument

Suggest shorter version:
df.move { group.col }.toStart(insideGroup = true)
df.move { group.col }.to(0, insideGroup = true)

On a second thought, not all selected columns can be from the same group :c

[Jolanrensen]

IMO this ticket describes too different things. I'd keep only move to(Start) moves the column outside the group. This could do with a "keepInsideGroup" argument: proposal - it will be easier to decide

it describes one problem, namely changing the order of columns inside a group is hard. Wether that can be solved with reorder or move is up to how we want to implement it.

This could do with a "keepInsideGroup" argument

Suggest shorter version: df.move { group.col }.toStart(insideGroup = true) df.move { group.col }.to(0, insideGroup = true)

On a second thought, not all selected columns can be from the same group :c

hmm you're right, that's probably why we didn't do this already, but there are still options:

• Create a move { group.singleCol }.to...() overload which gains the insideGroup argument
• Create a new operation moveWithinGroup {}
• Provide runtime errors when multiple columns are selected that don't have the same parent