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Add a Column

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Last updated 1 month ago

With evolving business requirements, the need to add new columns to your table can arise more often than not. PowerTable allows you to add new columns to an existing table on the fly to accommodate your changing needs.

A new column can be added to a table in two scenarios:

  1. While creating a table:

  1. While working with an existing table that you have already created or connected to:

We will go over how to add a visual column or a database column to your existing table.

  • Visual columns: These are created on the visual level and are available only in the PowerTable item.

  • Database columns: These columns are directly added to the source database via PowerTable.

We will now discuss the steps to adding each of them in a table.