just wanted to note that exporting to excel format would be very bad, csv should be used instead

another issue regarding configurable columns : ZBXNEXT-850

Agreed.
.csv would be fine.

I manipulated the frontend to show a tween box and remember the column selection in the profile. This happens as a string of ids, due to the limitation to 255 bytes.

If no column is chosen, a predefined default column is still shown. The order of columns is fixed. Text fields are automatically wrapped.

While it serves my purposes, I'm not sure that's really the way forward. I'll upload the patch when I consider it sane.

I attached the most clumsy and awful patch that solves my problem.

It also includes the red-link proposal of ZBX-6528.

Thank you!
Applied patch, users say this is what they need.
Hope it will be included in 2.0.7

Hello!

Just upgraded to 2.2.0 and found this patch is still not included
And I can't apply patch to 2.2:

[root@zabbix zabbix-2.2.0]# patch -p5 <zabbix-2.0.5-zbxnext-27.patch
patching file hostinventories.php
Hunk #1 succeeded at 36 (offset -1 lines).
Hunk #2 FAILED at 62.
Hunk #3 FAILED at 99.
Hunk #4 FAILED at 145.
Hunk #5 FAILED at 194.
Hunk #6 FAILED at 208.
Hunk #7 FAILED at 240.
6 out of 7 hunks FAILED – saving rejects to file hostinventories.php.rej
patching file include/hosts.inc.php
Hunk #1 succeeded at 462 (offset 1 line).
patching file styles/default.css
Hunk #1 FAILED at 716.
1 out of 1 hunk FAILED – saving rejects to file styles/default.css.rej
Is it possible to port this patch to 2.2 ?

Thank you!

Are there any chances, that this very useful feature will see the light of life one day?

it's currently not on the roadmap

Why it's not in roadmap?

It would be very useful to configure the visible columns in host inventory, e.g. we are not interested to see MAC Address and Serial Number in the list, but "Software Version A" and "B".

This could also be a very useful feature for us, the default columns are empty in our inventory.

So, I'd like to join to peoples who want this functionality out-of-box.

asand3r, did you vote on it?

yaron yeap, be sure. =)

Having a customizable Host inventory would be great Just voted for it

This would be a really good feature for us to be able to change the names off the fields. Like, I want to use one field of the inventory as a uptime field for each device, and there isn't any filed that I can use with the right name.

I don't think that uptime is a figure that belongs in an inventory.

The main idea of this issue (that is what I think) is to be able to change the names of the inventory fields, and that's what i'm doing editting the file /usr/share/zabbix/include/hosts.inc.php.

10 years of waiting for field custom names

Well @Alexei did say "12 years of waiting is over" for ZBXNEXT-114 So who knows, maybe this issue is next in line?  

Voted for this. Need a more granular and "OOTB" feature for this instead of meddling around with PHP file.