What's the use of Custom Tables

[cho]

Hi all,

Just curious about the EA15 feature Custom Tables; What's the purpose of those? Apart from "just being a table" with rows and columns is there an obvious use for it in any other functions? Simplify access to lists of values and parameters for a script? Can it be used in Heatmaps? Anything else?

BR Chris

[Uffe]

Hi Chris,


And welcome to the forum. Please note that I, like most of us here, am not a Sparx employee, just another user.

I've had a play around with the custom tables, and I think they're intended purely as visual representation of non-model data in tabular form. (As opposed to Model Views, which display model data collected via a database query.)
I don't think they can be used in any other functions, since those functions would then have to interpret the custom XML data the user has chosen to put in there and I don't see how they could.

Of course, if you write a script you could parse the XML data that you've put in. But it's hard-coded into the tagged value, not based on a query, so that sounds like it would be of limited use to me.

I'm not sure whether they're given special treatment in document generation, which would make them somewhat more useful. But it's early days so maybe there's more functionality relating to these things in the works.


/Uffe