The constant and seamingly sudden changes to Product Structure Explorer are very annoying and certainly not helpful in my opinion.

Examples:

• Changing data type from real to string

  • In FD01, real values were exported as a numerical string. I.e. 45 mm became "0.045". The "m" was not printed in the string, because you can assume SI units. 

    • This way you can easily implement logic, add, substract, multiply, etc. Things that a normal person would do with tabulated data.

  • Then in FD02 this was suddenly changed to a alphanumerical string, so 45 mm became "0.045 m". This is in my opinion not desirable, as you make it much harder for the user to analyse and play with the data.

• Changing the date format:

  • In FD02, the date format was as follows: "6/18/2025, 6:38:12 AM". I know this, because I keep the exports in our archive. 

  • Then in FD03 the date format (in the .csv export) was changed to "Jul 1, 2025". Maybe this was a mistake, since the time was not exported anymore, anyhow: the format is changed.

  • Now, in a newer version of FD03 the date format is changed to "2025-07-01T13:43:14Z". This seems to be ISO8016 standard, great. But again it is a sudden change from FD02.

    • We have business logic set up according to a certain date/time format. If this keeps changing all the time we cannot work with it. 

What would be a great improvement is to store the visibility settings of the relations columns. This was possible in FD02, however, this was (again) suddenly removed in FD03.

Now we have to turn on the column visibility every time we reload the page. Which is cumbersome and annoying.

Kind regards,

Kees