Example 8: Tables

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What will we do? - Learn the basics of tables with WEX
What do you need? - Site access to a non-production Windchill
How long will it take - 8 minutes

This example sheds some light on the fundamentals of how to add a table and data utility (e.g. a column) to Windchill.

You can find the code for this example in our GitHub repository.

Implementation

This example uses standard JCA Windchill table-generating procedures. The output looks like this:

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However, as we are using the WEX Framework, we must use slightly different techniques to normal in order to make the resulting Windchill Extension hot-loadable. The implementation consists of the two following classes:

Class	Extends	Description
WexTableBuilder	AbstractConfigurableTableBuilder	This is the builder that constructs the table. It must be annotated to that is becomes visible as a feature outside the extension
WexTableRow		The is a POJO that is interrogated by reflection to create a row

The WexTableBuilder implementation has a ComponentBuilder annotation:

@WexBean("com.wincomplm.wex-example-tables.wextable")
@WexComponent(uid = "com.wincomplm.wex-example-tables.wextable", description = "Wex Example Table")
@ComponentBuilder("com.wincomplm.wex-example-tables.wextable")
public class WexTableBuilder extends AbstractConfigurableTableBuilder {

This class uses a wex-default-du ID for the Data Utility:

@Override
    public ComponentConfig buildComponentConfig(ComponentParams cp) throws WTException {
        logger.trace("=>buildComponentConfig {0}", cp);
        ComponentConfigFactory factory = getComponentConfigFactory();
        JcaTableConfig table = (JcaTableConfig) factory.newTableConfig();
        table.setSelectable(false);
        table.setConfigurable(false);
        table.setLabel("Title");
        addColumn(factory, "data", "wex-default-du", "Example Data", 200, table);
        logger.trace("<=buildComponentConfig");
        return table;
    }//buildComponentConfig

The WexTableRow implementation has a POJO with getters, like the getData:

public String getData() {

These methods can also return objects that inherit from the com.ptc.core.components.rendering.guicomponents.HTMLGuiComponent class.

Execution

Access the Table Example entry in the Quick Links menu after having deployed the WEX:

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