Linux Tools Project/Systemtap/User Guide/graphing/dataTable.html

DataTable

The DataTable is the default view the user sees when running a script with the chart option. It intitially starts empty and populates as it recieves information parsed from the console originally from the script. The DataTable is a visualization of the data structure that every other graph type spawns from.

<img src="images/GraphingPerspective.png">

The columns of the DataTable can be resized at will by dragging the seperation lines between column headers. In addition, the information in the data table can be <a href="../tasks/importDataSet.html"> saved and loaded</a> without having to re-run the script. Furthermore, the user can populate the DataTable without having to run a script if a script's output has been saved into a file, see <a href="../tasks/openScriptOutput.html">Opening Script Output</a>.

Right clicking the DataTable provides a menu with the following options:

• Format as... - Depending on which column the user right clicked, his allows the user to format that column's data as one of the following:
  • Unformated - No formating is applied.
  • String
  • Date
  • Double
  • Hex
  • Octal
  • Binary
• Add Filter... - Adds a <a href="filters.html">filter</a> to the DataTable.
• Remove Filter... - Removes a <a href="filters.html">filter</a> from the DataTable.
• Manually Resize - Allows the user to resize column width without bouncing back to the minimum based on the largest value.