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Viewed Column Preferences

General

On the Columns preferences page you can choose the columns and relational-column aliases that will be displayed in list view and edit view for each table. By default, all of the data columns in a table and all of the relational-column aliases for that table will be displayed. You can choose the order in which the columns will be displayed.


These choices modify only the view of the data. The table structure is not changed.

Procedure

  1. From the "View" menu, select "Preferences". Click on the "Columns" tab at the top of the dialog.

    The columns that will be displayed are shown in the left list: Current Columns.

    The columns that are available, but are not currently chosen to be displayed, are shown in the right list: Available Columns.

  2. In the Table Name drop-down list, positioned at the top of the page, choose the table for which you will modify the column configuration. Instrument Manager will have automatically selected the table that is currently selected in the category tree.

    • To show a column, select the column in the Available Columns list, on the right, and click the [<] button. It will be moved to the Current Columns list.

    • To hide a column, select the column in the Current Columns list, on the left, and click the [>] button. It will be moved to the Available Columns list.

    • To change the position of columns, select one or more columns in the Current Columns list and click the up / down buttons that are positioned to the left of the Current Columns list.

  3. Click the [OK] button to accept your changes. The columns shown in list view or edit view will be reloaded according to your preferences.

Reusing a preferred column layout

When you alter the view or column settings in any CS/IM view, the settings you have made are saved in to the DSN file of your CS/IM project. These settings include column width, order, sort and other settings. The settings will all be in a [SECTION] of the file that is named after the user and the view name.

If you copy this section of the project DSN file to your template DSN file (in the <EDS>\ODBC\Data sources directory) then it will be retained as a template for all new CS/IM databases that you create.


A Cables view, for example:

[username-Cols-Tag_Tags_Cable]

Table=Tag_Tags

CompType=Cable

COL1=IDX,50

COL2=DWGID,150

COL3=<From Pnl>,100

COL4=<To Pnl>,120

COL6=Tagname,150

COL7=Status,150

COL8=Description,150

COL9=

SortColumn=Item

SortDirection=Descending


Table is the name of the table that contains the record that are shown in the list view.

CompType is the type of component shown in the list.

Where COLx defines the column order, name and width. The blank entry (COL9 here) specifies the column list is complete.

SortColumn defines the column by which to sort the list entries.

SortDirection defines whether to sort the list entries in "Ascending" or "Descending" alphanumerical order.


If you want all users to be able to access this section then remove "username-" from the section header. [username-Cols-Tag_Tags_Cable] before adding it to the DSN.

See Also

Preferences

Aliases

Project database template