Keynote Legend Format

[RJSNZ]

It seems like in order to set out a legend using all keynote elements (key/title/description/reference) you must use a 4 column format. (3 if you exclude reference)

When your title and reference is long this seems extremely space inefficient on a layout.

Is there a way to organize the legend into 2 columns or even 1 and still show all the information?

option 1: (my default layout with CI Keynotes - Sample image attached)

Key : Title
        : Description
        : reference (?)

option 2:
Key : Title
Description
reference

It seems that this library object needs to have more flexibility in formatting and displaying of information:

Operating system used: Windows 10

[James B]

Thanks for the feedback, currently you can merge cell content into one cell, but at the moment it will separate with a space only - not onto new lines and having separate formatting as per your example.

We have been investigating this further though.

[RJSNZ]

I just want to add to this in case the development team follows these threads.

Additional comment:

Table format / Table Style uses Max. Number of (table) Rows to set how far down the page a schedule will run.
This seems to be the only method to ensure your schedule does not over run a page (or the allocated space)

However in practice the lines in each row is not taken into account so if i set 60 rows, then one column could have 120 lines and another could be the minimum 60. This means a table with multiple columns appears inconsistent on a page.   

 

[James B]

Thanks for sharing the example and feedback.
The control is based on table rows, not text lines, as the gdl doesn’t know many lines of text is or isn’t being gathered. What might be possible, is to have a control for each column perhaps - I’d have to check if this is possible. In AC29 we have been working on a few other improvements for the legend, such as background colour, further control of merging columns and customising text.