# Alarm Status Table Column Manipulation

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarm-status-table-column-manipulation/24516>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [April 30, 2019, 5:36pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarm-status-table-column-manipulation/24516 "2019-04-30T17:36:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![jmartell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/779978/32.png) [@jmartell](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jmartell)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2019, 5:36pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarm-status-table-column-manipulation/24516/1 "2019-04-30T17:36:02Z")

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I recently ran across [this forum post](http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/power-table-auto-column-size/15151) discussing changing the column size dynamically for a power table. I can get the code to work on a power table, but I’d like to do the same thing for an Alarm Status Table.

This may be entirely due to my lack of familiarity with Java and Swing, but I can’t find a way to access the table used to display the alarm status information. From the[java docs](http://files.inductiveautomation.com/sdk/javadoc/ignition784rc1/com/inductiveautomation/factorypmi/application/components/AlarmStatusTable.html) I see that the AbstractAlarmTable has a getSortable() method, but that is protected and inaccessible.

Has anyone done something similar with the Alarm Status Table? Any tips on what I’m missing?