# Binding tags to a table component

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**Created:** [June 27, 2011, 10:14pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/binding-tags-to-a-table-component/3039 "2011-06-27T22:14:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![eaolson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f07891/32.png) [@eaolson](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/eaolson)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 10:14pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/binding-tags-to-a-table-component/3039/1 "2011-06-27T22:14:41Z")

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I have a series of booleans and numeric values that I think would be best put on my FactoryPMI project as a table. Right now, I have them as separate input components laid out on a grid.

So I’ve been experimenting with the Table component. Is there any built-in way to bind tag values to individual cells? I realize there’s a downloadable EditableTable component, but that sounds like it’s intended for use with database tables, not individual SQLTags.

If not, I’m thinking I may have to create a dynamic Dataset property and build a big expression to get the source data, then a cellEdited action for when the user changes one of the values. I may have around 80 numeric values, so I’m a bit worried about performance. I’m also not looking forward to writing that expression, so I’m hoping there’s some other way to do it I’m just not seeing.

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**Author:** ![Travis.Cox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Travis.Cox](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Travis.Cox)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 10:38pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/binding-tags-to-a-table-component/3039/2 "2011-06-27T22:38:26Z")

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In FactoryPMI, you have to build the a dataset in scripting in order to display tag values in the table. Basically, on a script somewhere on the window you can do the following:`header = ["Col 1", "Col 2"]
data = []
data.append([system.tag.getTagValue("TagPath1"), "Another Value"])
data.append(....) # for every row
event.source.parent.getComponent("Table").data = fpmi.dataset.toDataSet(header, data)`Take a look at this thread that talks about this (in Ignition):

[viewtopic.php?f=72&t=6553](http://inductiveautomation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=72&t=6553)

Hope this helps.