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What are the Table Creation Elements?

1. Toolbar

Reset - Reset the table to how you opened it (not available at creation of a Table).
Save - Save the Table.
Copy - Copy the Table (not available at creation of a Table).
Lock Table - Lock the Table so it can't be edited (not available at creation of a Table).
Delete - Delete the Table (not available at creation of a Table).

2. Table Info

1. Name - What the Table is named. 1. Name - What the Table is named.

2. Description - What the description of the Table will be. 2. Description - What the description of the Table will be.

3. Folder - What folder the Table will be located in. 3. Folder - What folder the Table will be located in.

4. Status - What is the status of the Table? (Development or Production) 4. Status - What is the status of the Table? (Development or Production)

5. Backup - Do you want the Table to be backed up? 5. Backup - Do you want the Table to be backed up?

6. Order By - What Field the Table is ordered by. 6. Order By - What Field the Table is ordered by.

If we open the drop-down menu, we can see the available options:

System: ID
System: Created
System: Updated

7. Order Direction - Choose if the order is Ascending, Descending, or None. 7. Order Direction - Choose if the order is Ascending, Descending, or None.

8. Primary Date Field - What Field is the Primary Date Field (in relation to the sorting on Dashboards). 8. Primary Date Field - What Field is the Primary Date Field (in relation to the sorting on Dashboards).

9. System Index Field - This allows you to index System Fields for quicker loads. 9. System Index Field - This allows you to index System Fields for quicker loads.

10. Onload JS/HTML -Allows Javascript or HTML code to be loaded once when the Table is opened. 10. Onload JS/HTML -Allows Javascript or HTML code to be loaded once when the Table is opened.

3. Dataset Tab

This is where you choose what type of Table you are creating.

4. Setup Tab

This is where you can add Fields, create links for mashups, or set up the Connector info.

5. Advanced Tab

This is where you can set triggers for your Connector Table.

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Topics

1. Getting Started 8
- 1.1 What is the basic interface for Minitab Connect?
- 1.2 What are the Customer Menu options?
- 1.3 What options are in the User Menu?
- 1.4 How do I Log in?
- 1.5 How do I Log In with Multiple Customers?
- 1.6 How do I Logout?
- 1.7 How do I change my Password?
- 1.8 What if I forget my Password?
2. Navigation Overview 8
- 2.1 What is the Window Switcher used for?
- 2.2 What are Collections?
- 2.3 What are Dashboards?
- 2.4 What are Tables?
- 2.5 What are Forms?
- 2.6 What is in the System navigation?
- 2.7 What is the Tool Switcher within the platform?
- 2.8 How do I use Notifications?
3. Use Account Settings 4
- 3.1 What is in the Account Settings?
- 3.2 How To Create An API Key?
- 3.3 How do I change my Profile Information?
- 3.4 How do I set a Default Theme?
4. Use & Create Collections 6
- 4.1 How do I create a Collection?
- 4.2 How do I add a Table to a Collection?
- 4.3 How do I add a Form to a Collection?
- 4.4 How do I add a Dashboard to a Collection?
- 4.5 How do I edit a Collection?
- 4.6 How do I Remove a Collection?
5. Use & Create Dashboards 6
- 5.1 What is the Dashboard Tool?
- 5.2 How Do I Create A Dashboard?
- 5.3 How Do I Add a Saved View to a Dashboard?
- 5.4 How Do I Add a Saved Visual to a Dashboard?
- 5.5 How Do I Move Elements on a Dashboard?
- 5.6 How Do I Share a Dashboard?
6. Use & Create Tables 8
- 6.1 What are the Table Creation Elements?
- 6.2 How do I create a Standard Table?
- 6.3 How do I create a Table from Import?
- 6.4 How do I create a Horizontal Mashup Table?
- 6.5 How do I create a Vertical Mashup Table?
- 6.6 How do I create a Custom SQL Table?
- 6.7 How do I create a Table using Drag & Drop?
- 6.8 How do I create a Table using a connection?
7. Use Forms 6
- 7.1 How do I clear a Form?
- 7.2 How do I Copy & Paste data into a Form?
- 7.3 How do I submit multiple entries into a Form?
- 7.4 How do I fill out a Bulk Form?
- 7.5 How do I clear a Bulk Form?
- 7.6 How do I remove an entry from the Bulk Form?
8. The Audit Tool 11
- 8.1 What is the Audit Tool?
- 8.2 What is in the General Information tab?
- 8.3 What is in the Record Audit tab?
- 8.4 What is in the Fields tab?
- 8.5 What is in the Custom Fields tab?
- 8.6 What is in the Forms tab?
- 8.7 What is in the Flows tab?
- 8.8 What is in the Prepped Views tab?
- 8.9 What is in the Visuals tab?
- 8.10 What is in the Exports tab?
- 8.11 What is in the Data Processes tab?
9. The Base Tool 9
- 9.1 What is in the Base Tool?
- 9.2 What are the Base Tool Elements?
- 9.3 What are the different Types of Fields available?
- 9.4 How do I edit the Table Info?
- 9.5 How do I Remove a Field?
- 9.6 How do I remove a Table?
- 9.7 How do I add Values to a List Field?
- 9.8 How do I create a Table SQL Field?
- 9.9 What types of Triggers are there?
10. The Flow Tool 16
- 10.1 Flow Tool Elements
- 10.2 How do I create a new Flow?
- 10.3 What Tools are on the Toolbar?
- 10.4 What are the Flow Configuration Tool Elements?
- 10.5 What options are available to Export Data from Flow?
- 10.6 What File Types are available under the Delivery section, to Export Data from Flow?
- 10.7 How do I modify a Flow?
- 10.8 How do I create a Form from within the Flow Tool?
- 10.9 How do I open a Form from the Flow Tool?
- 10.10 How do I modify a Form from the Flow Tool?
- 10.11 How do I add an Auto Import from the Flow Tool?
- 10.12 How do I modify an Auto Importer from the Flow Tool?
- 10.13 What Process Types are available?
- 10.14 How do I create a Custom Field from the the Flow Tool?
- 10.15 How do I modify or open a View from Flow?
- 10.16 How do I create a Raw to Clean Mapping?
11. The Form Tool 2
- 11.1 How do I fill out a Form?
- 11.2 How to create a New Form for an existing table.
12. The Note Tool 1
- 12.1 Notes Tool - General Collaboration
13. The Prep Tool 54
- 13.1 Prep Tool
- 13.2 What are the Configuration Elements in the Prep Tool?
- 13.3 Prep Tool Elements
- 13.4 What tools are on the Toolbar?
- 13.5 What are the Title Menu options?
- 13.6 What are the available System Fields?
- 13.7 How do I Select Records?
- 13.8 How do I Refresh data in the Prep Tool?
- 13.9 How do I change the number of Records seen in the Prep Tool?
- 13.10 What Tools are in the Right Click menu?
- 13.11 How Do I Add Records?
- 13.12 How do I Copy records?
- 13.13 How do I Edit Records as Text?
- 13.14 How do I Delete records?
- 13.15 How do I Import records via Copy & Paste?
- 13.16 How do I Import records via a Manual File Upload?
- 13.17 How do I Import records via Drag & Drop?
- 13.18 How do I Export a File to desktop?
- 13.19 How to Export using a Connector?
- 13.20 How do I Export a File to Email?
- 13.21 How do I Export a File to Web?
- 13.22 How do I Copy & Paste as Text?
- 13.23 How can I Show Data that is too large to fit in the grid?
- 13.24 How do I set a cell to NULL?
- 13.25 How do I Filter using With This Value/Without This Value?
- 13.26 How do I create a Pivot View?
- 13.27 How do I Reset the Grid View?
- 13.28 How do I Delete ALL records?
- 13.29 How do I limit my Data by Limiting the List?
- 13.30 How do I Find and Replace within a Column?
- 13.31 Create an Alarm from Saved View
- 13.32 How do I Expand a column?
- 13.33 How do I Expand All column(s)?
- 13.34 How do I Quickly Filter?
- 13.35 How do I Adjust a Column Width?
- 13.36 How do I manage which Fields are shown in the view?
- 13.37 How do I manage what Order the Fields are shown in?
- 13.38 What Formats can be used inside the Configuration Tool?
- 13.39 How do I change a Field Name?
- 13.40 How do I Filter in the Prep tool?
- 13.41 What Preps are available in the Configuration Tool? (Examples of each Prep)
- 13.42 How do I create a View Mashup Field?
- 13.43 What are the available Filter types?
- 13.44 How do I create Advanced Filters in the Prep Tool?
- 13.45 How do I manage the Sort Order of my Data?
- 13.46 How do I Clear Filters?
- 13.47 How do I save a configured View as a Table?
- 13.48 How do I save my configured View for later?
- 13.49 How do I remove a saved View?
- 13.50 How do I open a saved View?
- 13.51 How do I create a Conditional Format?
- 13.52 How do I edit a Conditional Format?
- 13.53 How do I remove a Conditional Format?
- 13.54 How do I Freeze column(s)?
14. The SPC Tool 2
- 14.1 SPC Tool
- 14.2 Create an Alarm from an SPC Chart
15. The Visualize Tool 31
- 15.1 Visualize Tool Elements
- 15.2 How do I create a Spline Visual?
- 15.3 How do I create an Area Spline Visual?
- 15.4 How do I create a Line Visual?
- 15.5 How do I create an Area Visual?
- 15.6 How do I create an Area Stacked Visual?
- 15.7 How do I create an Area Stacked Percentage Visual?
- 15.8 How do I create a Column Visual?
- 15.9 How do I create a Stacked Column Visual?
- 15.10 How do I create a Stacked Column Percentage Visual?
- 15.11 How do I create a Bar Visual?
- 15.12 How do I create a Stacked Bar Visual?
- 15.13 How do I create a Stacked Bar Percentage Visual?
- 15.14 How do I create a Scatter Plot Visual?
- 15.15 How do I create a Lollipop Visual?
- 15.16 How do I create a Pie Visual?
- 15.17 How do I create a Donut Visual?
- 15.18 How do I create a Semi Circle Visual?
- 15.19 How do I create a Bellcurve Visual?
- 15.20 How do I create a Histogram Visual?
- 15.21 How do I create a Pareto Visual?
- 15.22 How do I create a Waterfall Visual?
- 15.23 How do I create a Funnel Visual?
- 15.24 How do I create a Pyramid Visual?
- 15.25 How do I create a Heatmap Visual?
- 15.26 How do I create a Treemap Visual?
- 15.27 How do I create a Stream Graph Visual?
- 15.28 How do I create a Word Cloud Visual?
- 15.29 How do I create a Big Number Visual?
- 15.30 How do I create a US Map Visual?
- 15.31 How do I create a Global Map Visual?
16. System Tool: Customers 2
- 16.1 Security Features - Customer Password Requirements
- 16.2 What is Customer Information?
17. System Tool: User Groups 2
- 17.1 How do I create a user group?
- 17.2 What are the available Tool and Feature options within User Group Permissions?
18. System Tool: Users 2
- 18.1 How do I create a User ?
- 18.2 What are the User Roles and their default Permissions?
19. System Tool: Folders 3
- 19.1 How do I create a Folder?
- 19.2 How do I edit a Folder?
- 19.3 How do I remove a Folder?
20. System Tools: Connections 2
- 20.1 How do I create a Connector (Sample using Mockaroo)?
- 20.2 What are the available connectors, data types, platforms or systems that Minitab Connect integrates with?
21. System Tool: Plugins 2
- 21.1 How do I Upload a Plugin?
- 21.2 How do I Remove a Plugin?
22. System Tool: Snippets 1
- 22.1 How to create a Snippet
23. System Tool: Themes 2
- 23.1 How do I create a Theme?
- 23.2 Writing the CSS for a Theme (Simple).

Last Updated

Nov 18, 2020

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