# Configure Cell, ignition 8.1

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/configure-cell-ignition-8-1/58839>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** vision, ignition81\
**Created:** [April 25, 2022, 9:23pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/configure-cell-ignition-8-1/58839 "2022-04-25T21:23:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Esmeralda\_Lopez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/fbc32d/32.png) [@Esmeralda\_Lopez](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Esmeralda_Lopez)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2022, 9:23pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/configure-cell-ignition-8-1/58839/1 "2022-04-25T21:23:04Z")

</div>

Hello, how can I change a value from a table to another value as :

Old value  
2

New value  
“New”

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![josborn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/4bbf92/32.png) [@josborn](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/josborn)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2022, 9:35pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/configure-cell-ignition-8-1/58839/2 "2022-04-25T21:35:10Z")

</div>

Your question is really open ended, if you just want to be able to type in a new value, go to Table Customizers \> select the Colum \> check Editable. That all changes depending on your binding, and where you want to perform the edit.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/b/b/bba1050f693f3d9b702e8e4d72043841975e8255.png)

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Esmeralda\_Lopez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/fbc32d/32.png) [@Esmeralda\_Lopez](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Esmeralda_Lopez)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2022, 9:56pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/configure-cell-ignition-8-1/58839/3 "2022-04-25T21:56:17Z")

</div>

But I want just change the value in the table for another value that I am receiving and then I could see displayed the word “new” for 2

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Esmeralda\_Lopez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/fbc32d/32.png) [@Esmeralda\_Lopez](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Esmeralda_Lopez)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2022, 9:57pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/configure-cell-ignition-8-1/58839/4 "2022-04-25T21:57:50Z")

</div>

```auto
If colIndex==6:
        If value== 2:
             SetValue("new")

```

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![josborn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/4bbf92/32.png) [@josborn](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/josborn)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2022, 10:24pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/configure-cell-ignition-8-1/58839/5 "2022-04-25T22:24:18Z")

</div>

I think this is probably not a great idea, since its going to run multiple times. There might be a way to mitigate that, not sure.

This on a property change event will do it, though you will need to adapt to your actual table setup. My test table has one row and one column for simplicity.

```auto
data = event.source.data
newVal = data.getValueAt(0,0)
if newVal == "2":
	newData = system.dataset.setValue(data, 0, "value", "new")
	event.source.data = newData

```

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2022, 11:18pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/configure-cell-ignition-8-1/58839/6 "2022-04-25T23:18:10Z")

</div>

Don’t change anything in configureCell. It is fundamentally a _ **display** _ operation, nothing else. If you want to substitute, _ **return** _ the “new” string as a display item from the appropriate cell.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Esmeralda\_Lopez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/fbc32d/32.png) [@Esmeralda\_Lopez](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Esmeralda_Lopez)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2022, 11:48pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/configure-cell-ignition-8-1/58839/7 "2022-04-25T23:48:58Z")

</div>

But , how ?  
In which property ?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2022, 12:21am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/configure-cell-ignition-8-1/58839/8 "2022-04-26T00:21:47Z")

</div>

Match the row and column provided to the configureCell function against your logic on whether to display “new”. _ **Don’t change the data in configureCell.** _ If the data needs to change due to some other action, that other action must change it.