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April 12, 2017
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ConfigurationTable with InfoTable

  • April 12, 2017
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Hi,

I'm trying to put an InfoTable into a ConfigurationTable of my custom extension. But when I upload it to the ThingWorx platform no DataShape is available for the InfoTable, so I nothing can be inserted. The DataShape is on the ThingWorx server.

The Code looks like this:

@ThingworxConfigurationTableDefinitions(tables = {

  @ThingworxConfigurationTableDefinition(name = "Config", description = "", isMultiRow = false, ordinal = 0, dataShape = @ThingworxDataShapeDefinition(fields = {

  @ThingworxFieldDefinition(name = "list", description = "", baseType = "INFOTABLE", ordinal = 0, aspects = {

  "isEntityDataShape:true", "dataShape:testShapeInf" }) })) })

When I add a property with baseType INFOTABLE it woks fine, but not with the ConfigurationTable.

Has anybody experience with this?

Thanks,

Keijo

Best answer by jkaczynski

Hello Keijo Buss​,

A little bit late, but I found an workaround. You need to create your own service that will add the records to this nested InfoTable - and after that, you need to re-apply the DataShape to this InfoTable, as below:

// we are adding a row to our nestedInfoTable here...
// and then:
DataShapeDefinition dataShape = ((DataShape) EntityUtilities.findEntity("DataShapeName", ThingworxRelationshipTypes.DataShape)).getDataShape();
nestedInfoTable.setDataShape(dataShape);
configurationTable.SetInfoTableValue("ConfigTableName", nestedInfoTable);

Hope this helps to all of you having such a problem.

Regards,

J.

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ankigupta5-Regular Member
5-Regular Member
April 13, 2017

Keijo Buss​,

I can also reproduce this issue. I will report it to R&D Team.

Thanks,

Ankit Gupta

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jkaczynski1-VisitorAnswer
1-Visitor
June 29, 2017

Hello Keijo Buss​,

A little bit late, but I found an workaround. You need to create your own service that will add the records to this nested InfoTable - and after that, you need to re-apply the DataShape to this InfoTable, as below:

// we are adding a row to our nestedInfoTable here...
// and then:
DataShapeDefinition dataShape = ((DataShape) EntityUtilities.findEntity("DataShapeName", ThingworxRelationshipTypes.DataShape)).getDataShape();
nestedInfoTable.setDataShape(dataShape);
configurationTable.SetInfoTableValue("ConfigTableName", nestedInfoTable);

Hope this helps to all of you having such a problem.

Regards,

J.

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placatus5-Regular Member
5-Regular Member
August 8, 2017

The issue only appears when the configuration table has isMultiRow set to false. If you set isMultiRow to true, then the issue no longer appears. Here is an example:

@ThingworxConfigurationTableDefinitions(tables = {
@ThingworxConfigurationTableDefinition(name = "Config", description = "", isMultiRow = true, ordinal = 0, dataShape = @ThingworxDataShapeDefinition(fields = {
  @ThingworxFieldDefinition(name = "list", description = "", baseType = "INFOTABLE", ordinal = 0, aspects = {
  "isEntityDataShape:true",
  "dataShape:testShapeInf"
  })
}))
})

However, this causes the composer to display the configuration differently, which may be unwanted.

Another much better alternative is to use a separate Configuration Table for the Infotable property, and declare it inline.

Something like this:

@ThingworxConfigurationTableDefinitions(tables = {
 @ThingworxConfigurationTableDefinition(name = "Config", description = "", isMultiRow = false, ordinal = 0, dataShape =
 @ThingworxDataShapeDefinition(fields = {
 @ThingworxFieldDefinition(name = "username", description = "", baseType = "STRING", ordinal = 0),
 @ThingworxFieldDefinition(name = "pass", description = "", baseType = "PASSWORD", ordinal = 1)
 })
 ),
 @ThingworxConfigurationTableDefinition(name = "List", description = "", isMultiRow = true, ordinal = 0, dataShape =
 @ThingworxDataShapeDefinition(fields = {
 @ThingworxFieldDefinition(name = "element1", description = "", baseType = "STRING", ordinal = 0),
 @ThingworxFieldDefinition(name = "element2", description = "", baseType = "STRING", ordinal = 0)
 })
 )
 })

This would cause the UI to look something like this:

test.png

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    kbuss1-VisitorAuthor
    1-Visitor
    August 8, 2017

    Thanks for your answers.
    For me the approach of Jakub Kaczynski​​, that you manually apply the DataShape to the ConfigurationTable, works fine. You just have to save the ConfigurationTable and restart the Thing by calling the methods:

    this.SaveConfigurationTables();

    this.RestartThing();

    This works also when isMultiRow is set to false.

    I also used your suggestion, Petrisor Lacatus, using a separat ConfigurationTable just for the InfoTable, with isMultiRow set to true.

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