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feil1-Visitor
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July 5, 2019
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Data Format of Data Grid

  • July 5, 2019
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Does someone know the (JSON-)format of the Data-field of the Data Grid - Widget.

I want to use it without an Thingworxs-Service.

 

At the moment I'm using the ionic-popups' template-field for showing a table in it. There it's possible to put html-code into.
Is there another way to use html-code? Some widget?

Best answer by RolandRaytchev

Hi @feil,

 

there is no extra format required. For example for the dataGrid your need a service which returns an InfoTable. You need to pay attention that the result is also defined with datashape - because without explicit datashape it will not see the header fields - this is also an issue for repeaters (actually the dataGrid is a kind of repeater)

So TWX Thing service e.g. getviewablelist which is defined as:

 

2019-07-05_14-47-59.jpg

 

 

Next  in the external data we can add the service "getviewablelist" and create a binding between  service resutls -> all items  and the dataGrid - data property

 

2019-07-05_14-54-13.jpg

 

The next step is to connect the fields of the DataGrid widget with the repeater entities comming from the service

 

2019-07-05_14-56-05.jpg

 

And now we can test it in the preview :

 

2019-07-05_15-04-19.jpg

 

So in this example I used a css example style provided in the Studio Vuforia Help -> DataGrid 

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RolandRaytchev21-Topaz IAnswer
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July 5, 2019

Hi @feil,

 

there is no extra format required. For example for the dataGrid your need a service which returns an InfoTable. You need to pay attention that the result is also defined with datashape - because without explicit datashape it will not see the header fields - this is also an issue for repeaters (actually the dataGrid is a kind of repeater)

So TWX Thing service e.g. getviewablelist which is defined as:

 

2019-07-05_14-47-59.jpg

 

 

Next  in the external data we can add the service "getviewablelist" and create a binding between  service resutls -> all items  and the dataGrid - data property

 

2019-07-05_14-54-13.jpg

 

The next step is to connect the fields of the DataGrid widget with the repeater entities comming from the service

 

2019-07-05_14-56-05.jpg

 

And now we can test it in the preview :

 

2019-07-05_15-04-19.jpg

 

So in this example I used a css example style provided in the Studio Vuforia Help -> DataGrid 

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jmikesell1-Visitor
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July 8, 2019

@RolandRaytchev the OP question was how to do this without ThingWorx. PTC tech often seems to forget that even though we all get a ThingWorx server with Studio it IS NOT licensed for any use other than the experience server.

 

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RolandRaytchev21-Topaz I
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July 19, 2019

Hi @jmikesell ,

 

yes, this is correct - I overlooked the "without" in the original post. I am sorry!

  But actually it is mostly recommended to have at least Thingworx with some basic functionality. For trial instances - yes that is right - there we have only sample data – we cannot use any customers  objects. But actually for commercial installations, so far I know (maybe is not correct – not sure)  that there should be always   basic Thingworx functionality available. At least we can use some Things and custom services

So, back to the question -  I need to check this more deeply if we can manage this anyways without thingworx. I do not think that we have any official documentation about the syntax.

Possible idea will be to check the Thingworx solution and try to extract the data and check the syntax on the chrome debugging console.

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