# Icon in Perspective Table Column **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition Early Access\ **Created:** [November 18, 2019, 6:35pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/icon-in-perspective-table-column/30057 "2019-11-18T18:35:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bharghavi.balagopal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8dc957/32.png) [@bharghavi.balagopal](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/bharghavi.balagopal)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2019, 6:35pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/icon-in-perspective-table-column/30057/1 "2019-11-18T18:35:47Z")
Hello, Is there a way I can show an icon in a column. ? Like map the values of a column with some icons, how can it be done? Thanks, Bharghavi ---
**Author:** ![jdonohue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/51bf81/32.png) [@jdonohue](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jdonohue)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2020, 3:53pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/icon-in-perspective-table-column/30057/2 "2020-02-11T15:53:48Z")
Bump this - I’m also curious to know if there’s a way to add icons to tables in perspective. Uploading a sample. ![examples](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/5/56358befd34eaa99bb22ce6f11e5cf1903ce72fc.png) Is there a way to achieve this? ---
**Author:** ![jpark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a88e57/32.png) [@jpark](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jpark)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2020, 3:55pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/icon-in-perspective-table-column/30057/3 "2020-02-11T15:55:34Z")
Make the column render a view that has the icon. ---
**Author:** ![jdonohue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/51bf81/32.png) [@jdonohue](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jdonohue)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2020, 5:22pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/icon-in-perspective-table-column/30057/4 "2020-02-11T17:22:30Z")
thanks @jpark. I’ve done a “subview” in a table but haven’t directly put another view in there. Do you know of any reference material? ---
**Author:** ![wking](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/wking/32/21823_2.png) [@wking](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/wking)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2020, 5:29pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/icon-in-perspective-table-column/30057/5 "2020-02-11T17:29:22Z")
[https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC80/Perspective+-+Table](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC80/Perspective+-+Table) You’ll start there. You’ll make use of onSubviewExpand and collapse. You’ll point the view at another view and maybe feed it a param. Then head here [https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC80/Displaying+a+SubView+in+a+Table](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC80/Displaying+a+SubView+in+a+Table) ---
**Author:** ![jdonohue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/51bf81/32.png) [@jdonohue](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jdonohue)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2020, 5:42pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/icon-in-perspective-table-column/30057/6 "2020-02-11T17:42:24Z")
Hi @wking - thanks for the links. What I’m looking to do is embed a view in the table (not a subview). In the table video, it does mention this functionality at **2:49** in the perspective table video [https://inductiveuniversity.com/video/perspective-table/8.0/8.0](https://inductiveuniversity.com/video/perspective-table/8.0/8.0). I believe there’s a key word I need to have in a object. I tried “view” but it didn’t work. ---
**Author:** ![wking](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/wking/32/21823_2.png) [@wking](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/wking)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2020, 5:46pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/icon-in-perspective-table-column/30057/7 "2020-02-11T17:46:19Z")
Ahh…So like a highlighted link that maybe calls and opens a pop-up or even switches the view or something? I am trying to figure this functionality out myself as well. So I’ll follow: ---
**Author:** ![cmallonee](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/cmallonee/32/6416_2.png) [@cmallonee](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/cmallonee)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2020, 5:46pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/icon-in-perspective-table-column/30057/8 "2020-02-11T17:46:24Z")
No, @wking, that’s not what @jpark is recommending. @jdonohue: 1. Create a View which has just an icon, and bind the icon path to be dependent on some value supplied as a View param. 2. You should include a new `props.column` config which has `render` set to “view”. 3. set the relevant column configuration’s `viewPath` property to the path of the View which you set up with the Icon. 4. supply `columns[x].viewParams` with the value which will determine the icon to be used. ---
**Author:** ![jdonohue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/51bf81/32.png) [@jdonohue](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jdonohue)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2020, 6:21pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/icon-in-perspective-table-column/30057/9 "2020-02-11T18:21:36Z")
@cmallonee thank you so much for the help. I think I’m one step away from solving this. I’ve attached some screenshots of the instructions above. - created iconView with view params binded to the icon. - created query to populate table. - created table view with table component in it. Binded to the query. - added second column to table. selected viewPath to be iconView created and set viewParams. Still not able to show up, but feel like I’m close! ![table%201%20-%20view%20icon](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/6/649275e7ff97bd6fc8325fd8caec0395c27c0d61.png) ![table%202%20-%20test%20query](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/e/ed62f7acb40f7317262ff96e0b59de5c0d65e89b.png) ![table%203%20-%20table](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/1/196faf04a89aea4947da209e65a2f5b5639105ef.png) ---
**Author:** ![cmallonee](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/cmallonee/32/6416_2.png) [@cmallonee](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/cmallonee)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2020, 6:37pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/icon-in-perspective-table-column/30057/10 "2020-02-11T18:37:08Z")
Your `data` object is one-dimensional, so the column won’t display any data because there is nothing to display. 1. Provide a second column in your dataset. 2. Set `columns[1].field` to the value of the dataset’s second column. Table’s will not just display a configured column with manufactured data - they must reference a data object “column”. ---
**Author:** ![jdonohue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/51bf81/32.png) [@jdonohue](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jdonohue)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2020, 6:40pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/icon-in-perspective-table-column/30057/11 "2020-02-11T18:40:41Z")
PERFECT! Thank you @cmallonee @jpark for the help! ---
**Author:** ![cmallonee](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/cmallonee/32/6416_2.png) [@cmallonee](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/cmallonee)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2020, 6:42pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/icon-in-perspective-table-column/30057/12 "2020-02-11T18:42:30Z")
You’re welcome. What you might want to do instead of passing the icon path is just pass a simple value (`true`, `false`, or a numeric value) and then let the View with the icon determine the icon path from the value. ---
**Author:** ![dkyerger](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/dkyerger/32/7423_2.png) [@dkyerger](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/dkyerger)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2021, 2:44am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/icon-in-perspective-table-column/30057/13 "2021-01-22T02:44:28Z")
Sorry about digging up an old topic, but I was wondering if there is a way to pass the current value for the column (aka for that row) into the view to have it display different icons based on the value in the table. ---
**Author:** ![cmallonee](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/cmallonee/32/6416_2.png) [@cmallonee](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/cmallonee)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2021, 3:59pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/icon-in-perspective-table-column/30057/14 "2021-01-22T15:59:48Z")
The subview to be rendered should accept a param of type object with a key of `value`. This param will receive all of the row values, so you would bind against `self.view.params.value.targetParam`. See the docs [here](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC81/Displaying+a+SubView+in+a+Table) and look specifically at step number 6.