With this being in focus right now, I’ll add a use case that I don’t think was addressed in the brief: Setting name using automation on creation. It’s more flexible than a formula field as it can be edited, but still adds the convenience of setting the name automatically. This is most relevant for when templating. The new approach of “just create the entity” would be lovely to have for all entities, not just ones with formula. Create the entity, and set the first field in view to be in focus (and allow name to be editable without open). Whether this is a Name field, a “Template” field, or otherwise. Still doesn’t allow to set “Fields on Create” if those are different from the fields in view (like we were able to do with the pop-up), but I think it’s still cleaner than current behaviour.
Ideally (contradicting the above, but also more complex to set up as the end user) I could set for the field “Template” to be entered when creating a new entity, then an automation will set the name, and the view will have the Name shown.
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With the same line of reasoning, reordering the fields in the table view allows to set the leftmost field before setting the name. Or any other field for that matter. Usecase: Taking note about what each person said. I first will write “Ron said…” and only then what they said.
