Is the “Empty Data Source” text and/or icon on the Perspective Table editable? If not, is that a feature that could be added? Our table is only populated based on a user selection, so it would be nice to add some informative text on the table such as “Make Selection”.

It is not currently configurable, no. An alternative option is to place the table you’re using along with a Label into a Flex Container with the following setup: Bind Table.position.display to the property Table.props.data, and include a transform with the following code: return (value is not Non…

A more advanced solution would be to place the Table/Label combo into a separate Flex Container-based View entirely (along with their setup), and use that View via an Embedded View. This would allow that combination to be used in other locations.

What I do is create a custom property on the table called emptyData. In designer I bind that to the data property of the table while there is a valid dataset present. Then I remove the binding but the dataset remains with the emptyData property. I then click the dataset icon for emptyData and edit t…

Ah, sounds like quite the workaround! I’m noticing that if the dataset happens to be empty, the column names are not even displayed. Not idea!

I agree, this is not ideal… clunky at best. Is this something IA is going to implement?

This is an active, low-priority issue on our internal backlog. We’ll update this thread when there’s movement on the issue.

I’ll take active. :slight_smile: Thanks!

This probably isnt worth it, it was mostly just a fun exercise in theming, however this IS technically possible without any changes by IA, though it isnt necesarrily flexible. Theoretically if you created css styles using the same naming as the other styles (.psc-MyStyleClass I think?), then you co…

The lack of headers is actually most important in my opinion.

This isn’t perfect but to fix the column header issue you can just add a blank row to the table, to hide that it’s there you can also disable rowSelection and set the highlight to be turned off

What I don’t get is that if you look at the binding it shows the dataset with all of the columns, just no rows. Why can’t they show that, like they did in Vision? I understand the differences between Perspective and Vision, but not in this example.

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