Id's or Status as first columns
This is not a real question, just wanted to gauge sentiment, but also not be told not to ask questions in the chit-chat channel
If you're building a table, what would you prefer to be in the first column, and ID or a Status?
eg.
an orders table:
would you rather have the order status first or the order number?
7 Replies
ID
yeah, ID for me too
also, this is a real question. I really don't see how it's not
I'm a front-endie, but generally speaking ID seems more logical to me since it is considered unique. Even if sorting by status will be more important, the common practice and its underlying terminology should overrule here for maintainability reasons.
ID, since it never changes. Status is, by definition, malleable.
makes sense, and I guess status can be second.
lol didn't feel like a real question then, more of a passing thought
Status feels like a useful sortable element to me as well if you want to see pending orders on the top so i'd put it second. ID | Status | Name, etc... | Feels similar to a jira ticket table or something. The ID doesn't really matter but i still expect to see it on the left hand side
it depends a lot
it really depends a lot
what is more important?
is the id more important than the status?
if it is, show the id first
is the id unimportant? just dont have it in the table
if the status is more important, like in a life or death situation, the status must come first
and it must show the critical statuses first, already pre-sorted