Feature request: Customizable variable view for quick peek

[314Sami]

As I do civil engineering calculations and I have multiple elements and each element has multiple forces and reactions and there are many combinations of each etc, it is occasionally time-consuming to scroll back and forth looking what variables were what.

It would be really beneficial to offer easily customizable (even template would do as a starter) viewing method for stuff like that.

For example user could have a table as follows: (user inputs the data and if there is a variable, it is kept updated all times). The table would be searchable and the value-column read only, but clicking the line could jump to the line where the value is defined/used/calculated...

Object human readable name	Property	User assigned variable name	value
Floor 1 Left Beam	Maximum normal force	$N_{b1l,max}$	(filled automatically)
Floor 3 Column	diameter	$d_{56}$	(filled automatically)
Load case 6	Beam max deflection	$v_{b,6,max}$	(filled automatically)

[Erikbernhart]

Hi Sami,

would something like below work?

The object human readable name and property are text you need to provide, and the user asigned variable name refers to a value you previously calculated in your sheet
in that way you can make the variables visible by just filling in a tabledef$(lcoation;property;variable name; width of table)

[Proektsoftbg]

@Erikbernhart This is a great idea! Thank you for your suggestion.

If you allow me, I can propose some minor improvements:

1. tabledef$ macro to create only the table with just col headers.
2. Add rowdef$ for each variable inside the table, so the columns stay alighed.
3. Make the table fixed by adding the following CSS style: <table style="position: fixed; bottom: 0;" ...>. In this way it will stay at the bottom and not scroll with the content.

In future versions, we can add a variable table pannel inside the Calcpad UI that will display a list of all defined variables with the latest calculated values.

[Erikbernhart]

Hi Ned, suggestions are always more than welcome. The alignement in the snippet indeed looks a bit messy. And good tip for making the table fixed at the bottom. I should dive deeper into the CSS as well :) Verzonden vanaf Outlook voor Android<https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg>

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