Should be able to show empty columns initially

[CuriousCurmudgeon]

Currently the whiteboard only shows columns that the query returns results for. This prevents you from dragging tickets to empty columns.

Possible Solutions

• Don't show empty columns by default, but allow them to be toggled on.
• Show all columns no matter what.
• Allow the toggling of individual columns.

[anonymous]

Show all columns is better than the current state, and should be easy enough. (Empty columns could be slightly smaller to preserve screen real estate)

[anonymous]

me too

[Anders Hedberg]

Replying to anonymous:

me too

and me too. Need to drag tickets into states that are not shown.

[anonymous]

I also need the empty columns. Without the empty columns you can't really work with the whiteboard.

[Theodor Norup]

Due to the plugin's generality using the groupby for enumeration of the columns, this is less simple than it seems: Only the groups actually found by the query will be shown in the query result and the plugin cannot in general know "which groups are missing".

A naĩve solution is to treat groupby=status as a special case in the plugin. Or alternatively, treat any enumeration-type grouping field as special cases (this may require Trac 1.2??)

A more general solution could be to add configuration data to the plugin, allowing a number of such special cases and for each special case enumerate a minimal set of columns to be shown.