# Power Table JTable Methods

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/power-table-jtable-methods/34140>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** vision\
**Created:** [April 22, 2020, 10:03pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/power-table-jtable-methods/34140 "2020-04-22T22:03:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2020, 3:14pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/power-table-jtable-methods/34140/4 "2020-04-23T15:14:38Z")

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[http://files.inductiveautomation.com/sdk/javadoc/ignition80/8.0.11/com/inductiveautomation/factorypmi/application/components/VisionAdvancedTable.html](http://files.inductiveautomation.com/sdk/javadoc/ignition80/8.0.11/com/inductiveautomation/factorypmi/application/components/VisionAdvancedTable.html)

I've opined about this before on the forums, but the short version is that it's unreasonable to document every property of every possible object you'll be exposed to in scripting; take a look at that page; the `VisionAdvancedTable` java class behind the power table component has over a hundred methods; following the `getTable()` method to [`JideTable`](http://www.jidesoft.com/javadoc/com/jidesoft/grid/JideTable.html) has a few hundred more, and isn't even an "Ignition" component; it's from a third party library.

I'd start with the further steps I outline here; it's how I worked things out as a support rep:

> [@User object functions](http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/user-object-functions/28211/4):
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> Unfortunately, at some level (and it’s easy to do, so there’s no real way to tell you exactly when it will be) you “break out” of the expected areas where we’ve documented things and end up in the base Java classes that we’re using internally. Jython automatically wraps these up so they mostly seem like Python objects, so it’s hard to tell exactly when you get there. What I generally recommend, if you’re encountering something unfamiliar and want to see what you can do with it: Start with run…

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