I have a couple of tables and I simply wish to format the time stamp to a human readable form. Gemini and ChatGPT are usually pretty good but they both have failed me this time as none of the simple suggestions have worked. The table has a tag history binding that returns a single string representing a recipe name and a time stamp. As an added bonus, an easy way to rename the columns would be nice. From what I can determine the time stamp is not an actual column because when I added two columns manually they both affect the recipe name column but not the time stamp.
You'll want to add the columns under the columns prop with the field that matches your header name in the dataset. From there, you can specify that the column should render as a date, as well as specify the date format. You can also choose to render a different label for the header.
Oftentimes it helps to read the documentation. You'll find the answers in these pages:
When you ask a question from AI it will often just point to a useful page in the manual but it leaves out the snarky comment that humans seem to need. They should use that property to test for bots.
Thanks for the answer, no matter how painful it was. It's counter-intuitive to add columns for ones that already exist, though I get it now. Everything is simple once done. I'm just thinking it should auto-populate that from the binding.
It does, if left completely empty. But that auto-populated props.columns is simply the defaults for everything. Which doesn't get the behavior you need for this case.
You can write your own binding on props.columns to customize dynamically if necessary, reading the column names and data types out of a dataset. Be aware that the table in the browser is working from a JSON representation of the dataset, whether your binding specified it or not.
I apologize for any snarkiness in my response. It wasn't meant to painful. I simply wanted to point out that Ignition is relatively well documented, and its manual is therefore quite helpful. Because (as @pturmel said) Ignition is too niche for AI, as an alternative, the manual is a great place to go. I personally use it all almost every day when developing.
