# Adding Table Customizer to non-Table Component

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/adding-table-customizer-to-non-table-component/9436>\
**Category:** 3rd Party Modules\
**Created:** [December 12, 2014, 5:09pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/adding-table-customizer-to-non-table-component/9436 "2014-12-12T17:09:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![ssmith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@ssmith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ssmith)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2014, 5:09pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/adding-table-customizer-to-non-table-component/9436/1 "2014-12-12T17:09:34Z")

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I have a component that extends AbstractVisionComponent but has a PMITable inside of it. I would like a table customizer to point at the table inside my component. Right-clicking on my component and clicking on the table customizer brings up a prompt that says something like “This component is not a table.” This got me wondering what criteria it uses to determine if a component is a table.

Maybe, for example, if I give my component a few methods like setColumnAttributes() or some others in order to make the table customizer work with my component as if it were a table.

What is it that the Table Customizer is looking for when it determines a component isn’t a table?

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**Author:** ![Carl.Gould](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/carl.gould/32/7262_2.png) [@Carl.Gould](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Carl.Gould)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2014, 5:23pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/adding-table-customizer-to-non-table-component/9436/2 "2014-12-12T17:23:36Z")

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Well, the TableCustomizer class isn’t written to work with anything but the classic table. So you won’t be able to fool it into thinking your component is a table.

However, the TableCustomizer uses a class which conveniently is written in a more abstract manner - the com.inductiveautomation.factorypmi.designer.property.customizers.ColumnCustomizer panel. That class will work with any component which implements com.inductiveautomation.factorypmi.application.components.table.CustomizableTable

So, you’ll need to make your own customizer, but it could be pretty simple as it just creates and uses a ColumnCustomizer inside if itself.