Current implementation forces all dependent fields of the formulae to be selected in field picker of Table View. To display only important information, it forces the author to minimise these additional columns creating an ugly user experience. Are you planning to change this behaviour?
Andy - not exactly clear on what you are referring to. Is it that in the Aggregation drop-down you can set the aggregation function of a given field to 'None' to hide the field in the aggregated Table View, whereas when using Grouping in the Table View there is no grouping function option 'None'?
You can hide all the fields in a grouped Table View by using the show field picker for that view...
What do you mean by "forces all dependent fields of the formulae to be selected in field picker of Table View"? Are you grouping on a formula field? Can you post a screenshot of the 'ugly' user experience?
1. Field A = decimal, Field B = decimal, Field C = formula field: [A] +[B] 2. No aggregation 3. Group/Show overall summary row 4. Formula/Calculate formula fields for group result values 5. Let's say you want to hide field A and B as you only want to show the result , field C. tableview does not allow you to hide these fields as they are used in the formula - you get and Error in the summary row.
Therefore you need to scrunch up these fields in the UI which doesn't look nice and is confusing.
I have also faced this issue and ended up using separate fields to calculate the values I wanted in my aggregated table, with the formulas specifically tailored with aggregation in mind. I have attached a file that demonstrates this if you want to have a look. Unfortunately however, in my case at least, any ability to filter is lost as the values in the final table are static.