Properties dialog - User-Defined Table tab

You use the User-Defined Table tab of an Asta Powerproject Properties dialog to enter information in a user-defined table that has been defined for the current type of object. The tab only appears on a Properties dialog if a user-defined table has been defined for that type of object; the name of the tab is the name of the user-defined table. If more than one type of table has been defined for the current type of object, one tab appears for each table. For example, if two user-defined tables, called Priority and Manager, have been defined for Asta Powerproject calendars, Priority and Manager tabs appear on the Calendar Properties dialog.

A user-defined table is a grid. The columns in the grid are defined by the fields and user-defined enumerators that are set up within Server Admin: each field and user-defined enumerator forms a column. If a field has a default value, this is because one has been defined in Server Admin for the field. You do not have to enter information in some fields, while others are compulsory. Again, this is defined in Server Admin.

A user-defined table can comprise as many rows as you like. You insert, delete and change the position of rows within Asta Powerproject, using the buttons on the tab.

User-defined tables differ from user-defined fields in that you can only enter information into a user-defined field for an object once within Asta Powerproject; you can enter information into a field within a user-defined table as many times as you like by adding a new row to the table.

If you have created a user-defined table containing fields with which to link objects, for example tasks and resources, to external documents, you can enter hyperlinks to the external documents into the fields on this tab.