What dictates the ordering of the "column attributes" data set for a given table?

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I have a table that is updated when a window is opened. I have also written some logic to enable/disable column editing for a set of specified columns in the table. It seems to work (partially). However it does not update the expected columns. I ended up discovering that the column order in my table did not match the ordering of the columns as listed in the “Column Attributes Data” data set. Why would the ordering of these not match?

The ordering of my table is as follows (this is the desired order):
Channel
Descr
Min
Max
Value
Active
ModID
PointNo
TagPath

The ordering of the “Column Attributes Data” data set is:
ModID
Active
Channel
PointNo
Min
Value
Max
Descr
TagPath

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I really have no idea what sets that order, but a workaround for what you are doing would be to throw then in a dictionary and then reference them.

table = event.source.parent.getComponent('Power Table')
tempDict = {}
colData = table.columnAttributesData
i=0
ds = system.dataset.toPyDataSet(colData)
for row in ds:
	tempDict[row[0]]=i
	i+=1
newData = system.dataset.setValue(colData,tempDict['TagPath'],'editable',1)
table.columnAttributesData=newData
3

Why don’t you use the isCellEditable extension function?

4

Thank you jpark. That is certainly an option for updating individual cell attributes in a power table. However, my application is not currently using a power table for this set of components. Also for this particular situation, I would prefer updating the column attributes over iterating through all of the cells in each table.

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Thank you MMaynardUSG. This sounds like a good workaround option. I was just hoping that maybe it was caused but something that I have done so as to avoid putting in extra logic that may be unnecessary.