Layout Component Reference dialogue box improvement

Layout Component References are an amazing feature - they allow us to build reports from a standard library of components ensuring user interface consistency and code reuse across hundreds of reports. They reduce report build times and reduce maintenance cost

The LCR window in which you add an LCR to a report is very limited. A few of of the issues are.

1. the window cannot be resized - if you have long names it can be hard to find a component

2. no structure to the list of entries - makes finding something hard

3. the list is expanded by default making it hard to find something

4. you have to add entries LCRs one at a time - often we want to add multiple standard prompts at the same time

5. having to browse for other reports is pain - especially as I can only add one entry at a time

I am proposing the following improvements.

• The window should be resizable

• When choosing another report is should be possible to see the most recently used reports, a drop down to choose from the last 5 reports used

• The list of components should have an option to be sorted alphabetically, or by the order in the source report

• by default the list of components should be collapsed, with an expand /collapse option

• The components should be grouped by page within the source report, expanding the page shows the components on the page

• I should be able to add multiple LCRs at once, a bit like the search select prompt does. I pick things from the available list and add them to a list of things to add.

I have mocked up an idea of what this could look like.

If you wanted to go beyond the list - a preview of the selected component would be great!