Customizing Table Columns

You can add columns by clicking the Customize Columns icon in the local toolbar. This opens the Customize Columns dialog at the Customize the Columns of the Table page:

The Select available details from drop-down list enables you to choose between selecting entries for display from general item information or from different attribute lists.

This is the general information that you can display for all items:

Element	Description
Content Created by User	User who created the item content.
Content Created on	Content creation date.
Content Modified by User	User who last modified the item content.
Content Modified on	Content Modification date.
Created	Creation date.
Item ID	Internal ID of the item.
Modified	Date of last modification.
Modified by	User who last modified the item.
Name	Default. The item name.
Owned by	User who created the item.
Qualified Name	The name of the item, including the names of the item’s parent namespaces. For example: Northwind.Customers (that is, the qualified name of an item Customers in the namespace of item Northwind).
Short Description	Content of the DEFINITION attribute.
State	Item state.
Type	Default. The item type.
Version Created by User	User who created the item version.
Version Created on	Item version creation date.
Version Information	The name of the subject area to which the item version belongs.
Version Modified by User	User who last modified the item version.
Version Modified on	Item version modification date.

You can change the contents of the list by using these options:

• All attributes of all types: all attributes defined in the information model
• All attributes of listed items: all attributes of the items currently listed in the table
• Common attributes of all types: attributes common to all item types in the information model
• Common attributes of listed items: attributes common to the items currently listed in the table

To add columns to a table

1. From the Available details list, select the entries of the columns that you want to add to the table and then click Add:


The selected entries are moved to the Show these details in this order list.

2. Select an entry from the Show these details in this order list and then specify a fixed width in pixels for the corresponding column in the Fixed width of selected column field. You will find that values of 100 or greater will lead to useful results. This is an optional step.
3. Select one or more entries from the Show these details in this order list and then move the selected entries within the list by clicking the Move select objects upwards icon or the Move select objects downwards icon , respectively. This is an optional step.
4. Click OK to close the dialog and display the table with new columns added:

To remove a column from the table

1. From the Show these details in this order list, select the entries of the columns that you want to remove from the table and then click Remove:


The selected entries are moved to the Available details list.

2. Click OK to close the dialog and display the table with the selected columns removed.