Export bannedDisplayColumnTypes

packages/frontend-core/src/components/grid/cells/HeaderCell.svelte

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 <script>
   import { getContext, onMount, tick } from "svelte"
-  import { FieldType } from "@budibase/types"
-  import GridCell from "./GridCell.svelte"
+  import { canBeDisplayColumn } from "@budibase/shared-core"
   import { Icon, Popover, Menu, MenuItem, clickOutside } from "@budibase/bbui"
+  import GridCell from "./GridCell.svelte"
   import { getColumnIcon } from "../lib/utils"
 
   export let column
@@ -25,15 +25,6 @@
     datasource,
   } = getContext("grid")
 
-  const bannedDisplayColumnTypes = [
-    FieldType.LINK,
-    FieldType.ARRAY,
-    FieldType.ATTACHMENT,
-    FieldType.BOOLEAN,
-    FieldType.JSON,
-    FieldType.BB_REFERENCE,
-  ]
-
   let anchor
   let open = false
   let editIsOpen = false
@@ -233,8 +224,7 @@
       <MenuItem
         icon="Label"
         on:click={makeDisplayColumn}
-        disabled={idx === "sticky" ||
-          bannedDisplayColumnTypes.includes(column.schema.type)}
+        disabled={idx === "sticky" || !canBeDisplayColumn(column.schema.type)}
       >
         Use as display column
       </MenuItem>

packages/shared-core/src/table.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+import { FieldType } from "types/dist"
+
+const allowDisplayColumnByType: Record<FieldType, boolean> = {
+  [FieldType.STRING]: true,
+  [FieldType.LONGFORM]: true,
+  [FieldType.OPTIONS]: true,
+  [FieldType.NUMBER]: true,
+  [FieldType.DATETIME]: true,
+  [FieldType.FORMULA]: true,
+  [FieldType.AUTO]: true,
+  [FieldType.INTERNAL]: true,
+  [FieldType.BARCODEQR]: true,
+  [FieldType.BIGINT]: true,
+
+  [FieldType.BOOLEAN]: false,
+  [FieldType.ARRAY]: false,
+  [FieldType.ATTACHMENT]: false,
+  [FieldType.LINK]: false,
+  [FieldType.JSON]: false,
+  [FieldType.BB_REFERENCE]: false,
+}
+
+export function canBeDisplayColumn(type: FieldType): boolean {
+  return !!allowDisplayColumnByType[type]
+}