Disabling column selecting

[nico.pulver.novartis.com]

Hi team,
Is there a way to disable/hide the yellow selection for columns, but just keep it for the rows:

It seems like the Table view has an option to disable column selection, but this is afffecting the selection of the column header, not the yellow marking of the column.
Thanks

[kdoncov]

Hi Nico!
For this functionality you can simply disable Allow Block Selection and Allow Col Selection checkboxes in your table settings.

[nico.pulver.novartis.com]

But if I disable block selection, I can no longer select rows either. I was just interested to no longer see column selection.
I’m not sure what disabling column selection does, but it seems like it doesn’t have an effect on this either.

[kdoncov]

Yes, with disabled block selection you can’t select rows using block selection. But you can still select rows using row headers.

[nico.pulver.novartis.com]

ok, I see.
Is it still possible to just disable block selection for columns, but not for rows?

[skalkin]

I guess the right thing to do would be reworking the settings around the selection and introducing the “ContentMouseDragSelection” property (will come up with a better name) that would have the following flags:

• columns
• rows
• block

In the meantime, it would probably make sense to make rows selectable by default (when mouse dragging and not simply clicking) when the “block selection” option is off.

[nico.pulver.novartis.com]

Thanks, Andrew.
If you are planning to provide a more granular setting for this that would be nice.
It’s not critically urgent, so we can wait until you have refactored this.