Feature Request: Alias field next to contents

[chrisb]

I think when creating a new spreadsheet one wants to work with it so it should directly be shown.

+1

[uwestoehr]

I wanted to learn about the alias feature and realized that the Wiki page:
Spreadsheet_Workbench
needs to be revised. Maybe here is a volunteer who could update it a bit?

[TheMarkster]

How about this for a tooltip?

Refer to cell by alias, for example Spreadsheet.my_alias_name instead of Spreadsheet.B1

[uwestoehr]

Refer to cell by alias, for example Spreadsheet.my_alias_name instead of Spreadsheet.B1

Sounds good, however maybe this

"Refer to cell by alias name, for example\n Spreadsheet.alias_name instead of Spreadsheet.B1"
(note the line break)

[TheMarkster]

https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/pull/3162

[sgrogan]

https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/pull/3162

This thread is one of the very cool things about freecad

[uwestoehr]

https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/pull/3162

many thanks!

[Sergey_1]

https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/pull/3162

Big thanks for your so fast job!

It is a pity that there is nothing like "FCAliasEdit" widget over the entire program.
But isn't it better to have some common validation Alias/Name/label instead of creating new Implementation for an every Workbench or table cell?

Is it possible to rename for example the widget "LineEdit" widget to "FCCellEdit" so everyone don't have to use it instead of "FCAliasEdit"?

[TheMarkster]

It would make sense to have the same validation for all workbenches. The spreadsheet validation (I think anyway) requires the alias would be a valid python2 variable. Spreadsheet alias validation could be relaxed some now that we've moved to python3, which I believe allows characters other than only a-z and 0-9. Sketcher at this time doesn't validate constraint names at all.

[adrianinsaval]

Now that this is merged, shouldn't the Set Alias button be removed? it serves no purpose now. AFAIK the only property that is shown in that window and can't be controlled from the other buttons is the display unit, maybe the button can be changed to set display unit instead of alias? What do you guys think?