Hi everyone,
We are currently experiencing a behavioral difference between the Windows GUI and the Universal GUI and were wondering how others are handling this.
In our application, we frequently work with grouped data in grids/views. For example:
- a trip containing grouped orders,
- a planning containing grouped tasks,
- or other master/detail-like groupings.
Users can expand and collapse these groups.
Current behavior
In the Windows GUI, expanded groups remain open after the document or data is refreshed.
In the Universal GUI, however, we notice that after a refresh the groups are often collapsed again. As a result, users continuously need to re-expand the groups they were working in.
Impact
For our users this is quite disruptive, especially in screens where:
- many groups are present,
- automatic or manual refreshes happen frequently,
- and users work in the same dataset for a longer period of time.
This causes loss of context and unnecessary extra clicks.
Our questions
- Is this currently standard behavior in the Universal GUI?
- Are there any settings or best practices to preserve the expand/collapse state of grouped data after a refresh?
- Are there perhaps already improvements or roadmap items related to this topic?
We have seen several fixes and improvements in release notes regarding grouped grids and expand/collapse behavior, but we have not found a way to persist this state similar to the Windows GUI behavior.
We would be interested to hear whether others experience the same issue and if there are any known workarounds or solutions.
Thanks in advance!