Table controls and options

Many Workbench views present information in a table. All tables share similar features and controls.

	Live Updates — The “play” icon, available for the History Table view, starts Live Updates (On Demand) updating. The icon changes to a “pause” icon while Live Updates is active.
	Data parameters — These controls include Delta (for history logging) and Time Range settings.
	Delta — Useful for history logging, displays value changes (delta) in your table.
	Time range — The drop down option list has a variety of predefined time range options, including an option that allows you to restrict your data presentation to a particular date and time range that you specify.
	Title bar — Displays the name of the data collection on the left side of the title bar and in some tables (collection table, history table, alarm extension manager, and others) displays the total number of records in the table on the right side of the title bar.
	Column headings — Each column of data has a title that indicates the data type.
	Column boundaries — Each column has a movable column boundary that can be used to re-size the column using the mouse control. Stretch or shrink column width by dragging the column boundary, as desired. Use the Reset column widths menu item to reset all column widths to their default size.
	Table Options — Located in the upper right corner of the table, the drop down list provides one or more of the following controls and options: Reset column widths — sets all columns in the table to their default widths. This is useful if you manually changed widths of columns, and now some contents are hidden (even after scrolling). Export — opens the Export window where you can choose to export the table to PDF, text, HTML, or CSV (comma separated variable). Context-sensitive menu items — additional context-sensitive menu items appear depending on the component that you are viewing.

Device Manager tables

The Device Manager of a device folder is unaware of devices in other device folders (or in the root of the network component). However, from the root Device Manager view (of the network), you can flatten the folder structure to view all devices by clicking the All Descendants tool on the toolbar.

Note: In a large network, many subscribed device folders and devices, using the all descendants feature may decrease system performance.

The result is a view that includes the devices managed by multiple device folders.

Figure 3. Device Manager showing multiple folders

If you are using device folders, and you click on a table column to restart devices, the view loses any device-to-device folder organization. However, you can always see the contents of device folders clearly in the Nav tree, and again when returning to the Device Manager view from another view.