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Glad to see Expression Assistant!

Much more compact! Yay!

Virtual columns are no longer differentiated. Not sure how I feel about that…

I do like, however, that I can’t accidentally delete a virtual column by clicking the checkbox when going to edit it.

On the other hand, deleting multiple virtual columns is now cumbersome.

This is super important for many reasons:

  • You can finally have workflows be triggered without having to actually change data.
    Right now we have to either edit a column and reset it back to it’s original value or add a separate column such as [trigger] to accomplish this. Both approaches are very dirty and unneccessary.
  • You can finally start to do magic such as converting a price float (2.10$) to integer cents (210), because you can use the virtual column for input and have an App formula on the real field that converts