Tabular View

The widget allows presentation of information on a bidirectional grid, N rows x M columns.

Each row presents an instance of devices and each column represents a property of that device, examples of tables are: list of receptors, list of subarrays, list of alarms. Example of columns are names, addresses, LEDs, states, attribute values.

Widget setting

The following image shows an example of a widget setting.

It is possible to customize the widget setting from the inspector panel(in edit mode), as below:

Input value	Description
Devices	Type in a device name (or * to list all)
Precision	Integer to define the number of decimal cases
Scientific Notation	Enable this option to display the numbers in scientific notation
Show Default Attributes	If checked, it show the attributed defined in config.json file in columns
Show Enum Lables	Displays the enum labels when enabled
Show Tango Database Name	Displays the tango database name when enabled
Custom Attributes	The list of custom attributes added by the user
Show Compact Tables	It compacts the table size in order to show more data.
Show Bordered Tables	It creates a border for each cell in order to improve the readability
Text Color	Specify the color of text for given widget
Background Color	Specify the Background color for given widget
Text Size (in units)	Specify the font size of text for given widget
Font Type	Choose a font family. Either the default or Helvetica
Custom CSS	Write custom CSS for the widget container. The syntax is the same as standard CSS used in HTML files

Widget render

The image below shows an example of the Tabular widget running. It is important to note that:

The table header shows the list of attribute names
The first column shows the list of devices in bold
If the device does not have the attribute listed in the default configuration or custom attributes, ‘…’ is shown instead of the value
The table also shows ‘…’ when an attribute is unavailable or invalid for a device
States are colored using the Tango color convention
DevEnum attributes display only the label value
It is not possible to change the order of default or custom attributes