I’m back building in Foundry after parental leave and thought I’d share 4 small quality of life improvements (well 3 that I think are fairly new and one old favorite) in the spirit of things I noticed that people might have missed too. I’d love to hear about any similar “discoveries” folks have made in the last 6 months (or again, old oft-overlooked favorites)!?
The first three things I noticed were while helping refactor a colleague’s Workshop app. In no particular order:
Easy Workshop Headers
You can now easily add a Header to any widget from the layout bar - soooo so nice for easily and quickly adding affordances or creating a little menu bar above an already-in-place widget. Bonus tip: Try using the Leading Text configuration on the Header
type…header (as opposed to the default Subheader
) for an additional text layer with less visual weight. You can even completely delete the primary title. I find it really useful in making clean section layouts or mini-labels for specific widget clusters.
Compact Filter List Pills layout
There’s a new compact “pills” layout option for the filter list. I think it’s even cleaner than the existing Exploration Filter Pills for simple inline filtering; pairs really nicely with the Filter List for lightweight filtering. Bonus that it has a really nice configuration for setting up a default filter on linked object properties that let’s you present it to the user without making it obvious it’s on a linked object type; when setting it up change from Grouped to Inline for the linked object filter Display Properties
config.
Inline Object List Sorting Affordance
There’s now a way for users to specify sorting in an object list without enabling the weird built-in list header!! This always caused awkward layouts for me and now, if you turn on Enable user sorting
and leave off Show header
, there’s a nice little hover affordance in the lower right of the list that pops up a dedicated modal for the user to manage their sort preferences.
Secret Data Lineage Presentation Mode
And finally, one that I was reminded of from a another post on the community: Data Lineage has an undocumented “Presentation” mode that you can flip on under the small
User settings
in the upper right corner. With this you can create snapshots of your lineage view in various configurations and save them as an ordered presentation.
Maybe you already knew about all of these, but maybe you missed them too? If this is useful I’ll share more as I come across them and would love to learn from everyone else’s hidden gem / overlooked favorite features across the platform.