Group Relationship Columns

[Prometheus]

I’d love a way to group the columns in the relationship view. One of my most commonly used relationship views is the timeline in the rows and the characters in the columns. That way I can see who of the >100 characters are involved >1000 events by scrolling down through time and across to see the people.

However, the sort order for people is alphabetical, which isn’t entirely useful when insignificant characters are towards the left hand side. I have characters sorted into Character Groups: POV, Secondary, Tertiary, Quaternary. It would be helpful to have the POV characters clustered together, then secondary, etc. I know I can filter based on different groups, but I still want the less important characters in the view, just not in the prime spot.

Thank you!

[Rebecca]

Hi @Prometheus, many thanks for your suggestion and for those details about your work. We’ll take your feedback into account for future development.

In the meantime, one workaround would be to sort characters by Manual Order. This will make the column order a ‘flattened’ version of how characters appear in their side panel.

1. Click the Options button at the top of the Characters panel
2. Choose to sort by Manual Order
3. The columns should now follow the same order as in the sidebar. The character groups won’t appear as columns, but character columns will follow the order as if the groups were there.