I have been using ADF for a few years now and there are some parts of the development experience that I find frustrating so I decided to do something about it. I have created a chrome extension that does two things, firstly it lets you control the width of the dynamic properties side panel and secondly lets you export the data that is shown in the preview window. If there are more things that I can add easily then I will.

Panel Width

This is the existing dynamic value side panel, if you have any reasonably complex expression then it goes over one line and is really quite annoying. Take a look at this, this is a really simple expression and already it is hard to read - some expressions I have worked with are impossible in this tiny tiny window. I have a 4K display and have to hike my way all the way over to the top right hand few pixels to squint into this box:

Isn’t this better? We can use the full width (or whatver width we choose), no squiting into the corner of an expensive monitor needed here:

Exporting the Preview Dialog

I often use the preview dialog for exploring a database or dataset as I often have more access to a source system via ADF than I do under my own account, sometimes I have no access myself so examining columns and data is critical. The preview dialog is great but to copy a whole table out involves using the devtools console which is painful. If you get the preview window on screen you can now export it and as it is an html table you can paste straight into excel (OMG).

Have a look here:

https://youtu.be/7obCkLDtx4Y

Get the extension here:

I am quite limited in what I can fix but if there is something you would like to see added reach out to me and ask, if it is something that annoys me about ADF and if it is something I can physically do then it might well get done!