I was on a call with the Quick Base Product Manager at a demo where I asked this very question. ie, not wanting to clutter up the width of the report with an extra column. They are aware of the issue and do have some plans to address that. I also pointe dout that we needed way not to be offering like 1,000 extra fields to filter on if it was a table with 1,000 fields.
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Mark Shnier (YQC)
Quick Base Solution Provider
Your Quick Base Coach
http://QuickBaseCoach.commark.shnier@gmail.com
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