Tables – automated way of updating them?

[Jason]

not sure if this has been asked before but at our site, we have constant requests to update Tables. We then need to go in and manually update them using the Lookup Table Configurator tool.

is there possibly a way to update these automatically/programmatically?

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[Charlie Bursell]

How many tables? At a User Conference many moons ago I had a presentation on building and using dynamic tables. Maybe it would still apply?

[Jason]

Just 1 or 2… dynamic tables.. I’m interested, how do they work??

thanks!

[Peter Cosman]

Also very interested to know if there is an official supported way of doing this.

[Charlie Bursell]

AFIK there is no official method for this. It would be a good enhancement to support dynamic tables.

Enclosed is the proc I used to demonstrate the possibility. T is based on the assumption there is a spreadsheet which can be modified and used as a basis for the updates.

It was presented back in 2010 and a lot has changed since then but I think the premise is still valid.

Maybe you could use this as a starting point to build your own.

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[Paul Stein]

Programmatically could possibly be done via Swagger/CLAPI.

I do see an operations listed for addOneRow, deleteOneRow, and updateOneRow.

I too am interested in Charlie’s dynamic tables and look forward to reviewing his tcl proc.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 1 month ago by Paul Stein.

[Jason]

thanks Charlie! I’m going to look through this script as well

[Jason]

Charlie,

Just looked through the script, great work, but where are you actually writing into the Tables? maybe I missed it, I guess that’s the crux of the issue.

Thanks

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