More About Cell View Types

Support for the following cell view data types has been added in Aras Innovator 38:

• List
• Boolean
• Floating Point
• Integer
• Date enhancements for Short/Long Date/time formatting

You can use the List Cell View Type to create list properties in a Tree Grid View as shown in the following procedure:

Figure 71.

1. Click the Show Editor button to view the parameters.

Figure 72.

2. Right-click an entry in the Authoring Tool column and select Cell Display Settings

Figure 73.

3. Select List in the Cell View Type drop-down list and enter the name of the list in the List Name field. When applying the List data type, the List Item label will appear in the Tree Grid View.
4. Click Save. Figure 74 shows the result when displaying a List Property.

Figure 74.

The following example shows how to use the Boolean Cell View Type. The example uses the sample PE_CAD_ReverseItemsPart Tree Grid View Definition:

1. Click the Show Editor button to view the parameters:

Figure 75.

2. Right-click an entry in the Changes column and select Boolean in the Cell View Type drop-down list:

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3. Click Save.

The following example shows the use of the Decimal Cell View Type. This Cell View Type enables the user to specify a Precision and Scale for an associated Double or Floating Point property type. In this example, the Cost column in the TGV Definition refers to the Cost property in the associated QD:

1. Right-click an entry in the Cost column and select Decimal in the Cell View Type drop-down list.

2. Enter appropriate values in the Precision and Scale fields and click Save.

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The following example also uses the PE_CAD_ReverseItemsPart TGV. This example contains a QD that refers to the Cost floating point property.

1. Click the Show Editor button to view the parameters.

Figure 78.

2. Right-click an entry in the Cost column and select Float in the Cell View Type drop-down list.

Figure 79.

The Date cell view type now supports the short date, long date, and date with time formats for date properties. A secondary selection drop-down menu is automatically displayed when the Data Cell View Type is selected initially.

Figure 80. In this example, the created_on date type property is displayed as the Long Date Time Cell View Type. The results appear as shown in Figure 81.

Figure 81. Selecting Short Date does not provide enough information; see Figure 82.

Figure 82. In this example, the created_on date type property is displayed as the Long Date Time Cell View Type. The results appear as shown in Figure 83.

Figure 83.

The Integer Cell View Type provides an alternative to the conversion of numeric values to text for display in the Tree Grid View. Using Integer, a value is sorted numerically (ascending or descending) unlike Text, whose resulting values are sorted numerically instead.

Figure 84. A common usage for Integer is Version (generation).

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