Column settings for a template item

[David_F]

Is there any way to specify a set of columns for a template item? I've been trying to do this, but my selection never sticks. As soon as I come back to the template item it's gone back to its default setting - title, flag, date accessed, date created - which I never use.

[David_F]

OK, this is odd. I thought this was a problem just to do with templates, but I find there is the same inability to set columns for any item. I press F9 and specify the columns, click OK, and there they are. Then I move away, and come back, and the default columns are back. Never came across this before. Is there any setting or configuration that could be doing this?

[David_F]

On further investigation, it's only happening in one database.

[kinook]

Try Tools | Compact & Repair.

[David_F]

Tried that without success. Narrowed it down eventually to some particular items that were behaving oddly: it was like the parent item would become the child item of its own child, like a kind of circular hierarchy... Each time I rearranged them and deleted the duplicates it would come back. In the end I just deleted those 2 or 3 items, and the template they came from, and the problem went away. It was odd while it lasted.