Manager table features

As with other table-based views in Workbench, manager views of various components under a driver’s network provide common features that can be useful (see “About table controls” for a general overview). These features apply to various component views found throughout a station’s driver architecture, for example, the Driver Manager, Device Manager, Point Manager, History Import Manager, and so on.

Of particular utility are the following table features:

Table options menu

Use the table options drop-down menu (small control in upper table right, as shown in Figure 28) to perform any of the following:

Figure 28. Table options menu in Device Manager


Table options menu in Device Manager


  • Reset Column Widths

    Useful if you manually changed widths of columns, and now some contents are hidden (even after scrolling). The reset restores all columns to widths that accommodate contents.

  • Export

    Produce the standard Export dialog, where you can select exporting the table to PDF, text, HTML, or CSV (comma separated variable). See “About table exports” for more details.

  • select or clear columns for display

    Depending on the driver, a certain “default” collection of columns is pre-selected for display in the Manager view. You can change that by checking or clearing column headings.

Column resorting

Click on any column header to toggle the table sort between ascending (first click) and descending (second click). The current table sort is indicated by a small triangle in the sorting column.