Configuring a Table — Creating a Customized View
If the table is to be configured to have customized views, table builder should implement interface ConfigurableTableBuilder. The interface, ConfigurableTableBuilder has only method:
ConfigurableTable buildConfigurableTable(String id) throws WTException;
The method should return an instance of a class implementing interface ConfigurableTable. Default JCA implementation is provided by class JCAConfigurableTable.
Table views intended for JCA are required to extend the com.ptc.core.htmlcomp.components.JCAConfigurableTable class.
As in 9.x versions, no mapping in service.properties.xconf to this class is required.
When implementing getOOTBTableViews and defining OOTB views, it is important to use the correct column ids. Column ids for common attributes are defined in com.ptc.core.components.descriptor.DescriptorConstants.ColumnIdentifiers. If the column is not found here, then it is best to use the available attribute report for the types contained in the table. Available Attributes report link is available under Customization tab inside “Tools” link.
If more than one table view was implemented, then the current view displayed would be either the first view on the list (alphabetically) or the table view set in the getOOTBActiveViewName method.
Selecting “Customize…” from the current view list launches a pop-up displaying the configurable table views. From there, additional table views can be added and removed using the toolbar actions.
For each view in that list, there is an action to set that view as “active”. By using this action, any view can be set as the default. An example:
public class MyTableBuilder extends AbstractConfigurableTableBuilder {
…
@Override
public ConfigurableTable buildConfigurableTable(String tableId)
throws WTException {
return new MyConfigurableTable();
}
/* an internal static class */
private static class MyConfigurableTable extends JCAConfigurableTable {
}
…
}