Our application contains a grid with check marks that enables users to switch the fields of another grid between mandatory, optional and read-only per specific category in its data (where read-only also means hidden in the form). This makes it possible for let's say department managers to maintain data categories and add new ones. We accomplished this settings grid through the use of check marks that can have a null value effectively creating the three options we needed: null, 0 and 1 (representing optional, read-only/hidden and mandatory respectively). The end result is a rather sleek looking grid but of course we got a bit lucky here that we didn't need more than 3 options per field.
To cover for more than 3 options for future projects we would like to see an adaptation of the image combo feature where users can cycle through all options one by one simply by clicking. That combined with some clever icon design would take away any limitation on the number of options that can be used in a clickable field. Of course if there are lots of options then drop-downs are probably more practical but for many kinds of such grids I believe a clickable image combo could be very pleasing both in use and appearance.
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