Description
This is based on some feedback I received from a group on the UIUC campus who uses Scalar and was echoed by an author who is publishing a book using Scalar with the Illinois Open Publishing Network. I noticed some recent work on column display handling for lenses, so I thought this might be a ripe time to suggest this feature.
Issue:
When users build a lens with metadata facets for a list view, they would like the to see the metadata they are querying as a results column.
Example:
A user wants to see all pages that are within 50 miles of the center of Berlin that do not contain the word "Berlin" in the iptc:city field. They are interested in the query primarily to see which cities are represented, however, that data isn't returned and displayed in the list.
Roadblocks/Risks:
Managing how many columns are represented in the results
Implementation ideas:
There could be a checkbox as part of the configuration interface that would indicate if this field should be included in the results, something like this:
Alternatively, a more complete solution might add an additional drop down when the list is selected that allows users to select which columns to display for this lens:
