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Hi Daniel It is currently not possible to use your own fonts in Dashboards or Low Code Apps (not in the themes & not in the web component). There are also no tasks on our backlog to add this feature....

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Hi Ashwini, Or filtering is not possible using the 'Contains' filter method. You can achieve your desired result using the 'Regex' method. For example: '^(WoutMH|Test Element 1)$' will show all elements...

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Hi Martin There is currently no easy way to update/delete an image from within Dashboards/Low Code Apps itself. It can safely be deleted from C:\Skyline DataMiner\dashboards\_IMAGES, this will have to...

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Hi, The login form of our web apps indeed has ids change every time the page is loaded. I'm not familiar with CyberArk, but using the documentation link you provided I noticed that you should be able...

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Hi Tim, It is possible to feed multiple query rows at once from a table and use this as a script input. You can configure an action to execute a script on a header bar button, a button component or use...

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Hi Jim, You can link the output of the automation script back to the Low Code app via the 'Script outputs' feed of the button used to execute the script. This feed represents key-value pairs where the...

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Hi Enver, This is possible using the latest version of LCA. You can configure the panel with feeds from both the table & node-edge component. To make sure that the correct data is displayed when a...

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Hi Miguel Case 1 & 2 are both possible for markers, but noy yet for lines: Because each marker is a template, the template editor can be used to configure actions to execute on a shape level. This...

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Hi Jim, This sounds like a perfect case for the grid component, available out of softlaunch from 10.4.1 onwards. You can link a query to the grid component that fetches the rows from the parameter table...

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Hi Miloš, Depending of the version of your web apps, this can be done in 2 ways:  Before table cell templates: < 10.4.1 You can configure an action on the table to execute via a 'Text hyperlink'....

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Hi Vikas, The default layout for a PDF export of a dashboard has the 'Stack components' option enabled. Disabling this option will position the components as you see on the dashboard. Disabling the option...

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Hi Leander, The behavior you encountered is a known limitation of the GQI templates. Currently it is not possible to configure templates for data coming from a feed, only the default template can be used....

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Hi Andrew, There is currently no option to 'freeze' a table column just as with Excel. If you want this, you can open a feature suggestion. If this topic gets enough support, we can consider putting it...

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Hi Mieke, To filter the data in your table, you can link the time range component as a feed to the query. To do this, you will need to add 2 filter nodes to user the 'From' and 'To' feeds of the time...

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Hi Wale It is not possible to hide this filter, without modifying your data. It is shown because the underlying 'MCR Status' column is a discrete column with numeric values. You could modify this column...

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Hi Baranisudha This can be achieved using Table templates. These templates allows you to style any table cell the way you want and to create actions and conditions based on the data. To learn more about...

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Hi Davor I see that you are using a GQI query for your use case. You can configure this in a few steps: Add a line & area chart component and time range component to the dashboard. Create query...

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Hi Dario You are indeed seeing different visualizations because of the different versions. With DataMiner 10.3.0[CU13]/10.4.0[CU1]/10.4.4, we introduced the ability to show the results of a query in a...

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Hi, We have some features in Dashboards & Low Code Apps that make creating custom visuals possible: The web component can be used to create a custom visual. You can link some feeds to insert data...

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Hi John, Currently it is only possible to do this by manipulating the app files themselves, there is no UI for this. You can assign a/multiple section to a LCA following these steps: Locate the app...

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Hi Randy, To display icons in a template, you need to use the icon tool. When you have created a new icon layer/selected an existing icon layer, the icons become available on the right side of the editor.

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Hi Kevin, By default, the cells of a table will not show HTML as HTML. To view this as HTML, the only thing you have to do is to overwrite the cell with a custom template. Even the default template will...

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Hi, This is currently not possible in any of our web apps, the 24-hour format is always used. If you would want us to support this format, you can create a feature request.

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Hi Dieter, You can change the view & edit permissions of a dashboard in the 'settings' while having no component selected. Removing the view restriction should make the dashboard shareable via the...

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Hi Lucas, Can you tell us what version of the web apps you are using? You can find this by clicking on your user icon in the top right & then selecting about. We have fixed an issue with not being...

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Hi Nathan To make sure that the grid templates take the available width, you have to create your template so that it can handle that. This means that you should not lock the width of your background shape...

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Hi Harald This is a correct observation. The 'Feeds' dataset has been retired in favor of 2 new datasets: 'Components' & 'Url'. you can read more about this in a recent blogpost. Functionally, everything...

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Hi Ruben Unfortunately, the scroll position of the grid component will always be reset after a re-fetch in the current software version. I have created a task on our backlog to change this behavior, we...

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Hi Wale, All columns that are retrieved using GQI will be available in the feed. If they are filtered out using a 'select' node, they are not in the query result and thus not in the feed. To achieve your...

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Hi Felix It is currently not possible to link a dummy to a script action using a feed, this only works for parameters. I have create a task on our backlog to implement this As a workaround you could...

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Hi Miguel Showing the different alarm levels underneath the parameter like this is currently not possible in the web version of Monitoring. I have created a task on our backlog to align this with Cube.

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Hi Kévin, It is currently not possible to customize the group headers of grouped rows. Table templates are only supported for normal rows. We have already received a feature task to support your use...

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Hi Gerwin, Your expectations make a lot of sense and this is also what we want the behavior to be in the future. At the moment we have some cases where 1 row could represent multiple DOM instances, elements,...

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Hi Reinout To show images in a template, you can indeed use the text shape with some HTML code inside. In my example here I used a static image with a fixed width & height, but these can also be linked...

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Hi Marco, You can use a 'navigate to url' action with feed linking for this. Inside the url, you can use the feed values from the dropdown and text inputs. Here is an example that will navigate to google...

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Hi Mauro, The 'Fetch the data' action is completed when the data is done fetching. The issue you are having is that the reselection of the table rows hasn't happened yet. This means that the 'query rows'...

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Hi Yahya, There is a 'Rename column' custom operator available on the catalog that can be used for this. An other option would be to rename the column using a 'concatenate' column manipulation with...

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Hi Tim, This is achievable by adding  query column as a Group to a dashboard component. The columns of a query can be found by clicking the expander in front of the query name. This grouping will be...

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Hey Mieke, As Robin mentioned, it is possible to use a feed in the Web component. This can be used together with the Script outputs feed from the button component to dynamically change the URL based on...

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Hi Gerwin, Currently this is not possible when using GQI data on a line chart component. We are developing multi-line/multi-axis support for the component as we speak. This, and some other enhancements,...

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Hi Dieter, Sharing a dashboard using the URL will include all the feeds that are currently set in the dashboard as a url parameter. These are included to ensure that everyone that clicks the link gets...

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Hi Wale, Custom dashboard themes are stored in a separate file (C:\Skyline DataMiner\dashboards\Themes.json) that you could include in the package. Be aware that overwriting this file will remove all...

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Hi Bernard, There is no way to increase this timeout. However, recently a fix was done for the issue where a timeout would always be thrown when fetching alarms using GQI took more than 120s. Could this...

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Hi Jens, GQI Ad Hoc Data sources currently do not have a concept of columns with discreet values. When columns can be discreet and their discreet values can be defined in the script, the query will have...

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Hi Ashwiny, The scheduler will only be able to attach public dashboards to an email. Dashboards that are only able to be viewed by specific users/groups are not available in the list. Is this the case...

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Hi Flavio There is currently no way to make sure that all nodes & edges are visible in the viewport of the node edge component. The component bases the viewport size on the size of the component itself,...

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Hi Mieke, This is currently not possible, the web component cannot make use of feeds. It would be interesting to add this to our software in a similar way that you can already use feeds in an URL-action....

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Hi Leander, With the GQI templates it is possible to configure a template to behave as you describe. For this you need to 'lock' the right offset to the amount of pixels/percentage you want. This will...

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Hi, You can easily create such a dashboard with 3 component: First you start with a table component. This table should have a query that retrieves the desired table parameters. You can do this with...

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Hi Mieke The Monitoring app currently doesn't have the functionality to open the stream viewer. If you would like us to implement this, you can create a feature suggestion.

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Hi Juan The line chart using GQI queries is not designed to work with discrete values but can work with them as long as their underlying value is a number. In your first screenshot it seems to be working...

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Hi Wale, Can you give some more information about the parameter that creates this difference? The monitoring app should display everything in a similar way as in Cube, so this is unexpected.

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Hi Wale, This is something that should happen out-of-the-box. When a table re-fetches it's data, it should return to the rows you were viewing before the fetch started. I can see in your gif that there...

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Hi Sebastian It is currently not possible to access the script output feed from script that were executed in page/panel events. Only the script output feed from a button component can be accessed at the...

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Hi Hari, The 'save current changes' action has 2 different functions depending on the data that is fed to the form: DOM Definition data: the action will create a new DOM instance for the definition...

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Hi Jonas, You can hide the header bar by adding ?embed=true to the url you are using in the web component. There is currently no way to prevent the sidebar with other pages from being displayed. This...

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Hi Enver, This is currently not possible. I have created a task on our backlog to implement a 'conditional actions' feature for a use case like yours.

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Hi Tim, When you want to hide columns in your table, but still need them returned from your query, you can use the 'filter' (orange funnel icon) input on the component to decide what columns to show....

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Hi Lucas, The time range component only has a granularity down to minutes, there is currently no way to make it go down to seconds. The same goes for the inputs in Dashboards & LCA in general. If...

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Hi Jonas, The path input expects the URL of an image, or a path relative to the C:\Skyline DataMiner\Webpages folder (which is also a url). This means that you can link any public image on the web or...

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Hi Jeroen, Currently dashboards has a most of these features available: Customer selection: This can be achieved by creating a query that fetches all possible customers (from DOM or Ad hoc source)....

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Hi Zhing Hang, Unfortunately this cannot be done using a parameter as data in the line chart component. This configuration can be achieved using the same component with queries starting from DataMiner...

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Hi Joshua, There are currently now ways to add single read/write parameters to a Low Code App. Editing parameters is only available for tables using the Parameter Table component.

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Hi kevin, This action is used to set the selection of the table based on the output of a previous actions. It cannot be used to set the default selection of the table (yet). If you want to set a default...

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Hi Jeroen, I'll try to answer all the questions in your post: Is there a way to send emails with the new dashboard reports attached from automation script? => you can send the reports via email...

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Hi Robert, Whether or not the label should be displayed in a minimalized state is determined by the software, this cannot be configured. It looks to all surrounding nodes and labels to see if anything...

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Hi, It is safe to manually delete the entire app folder. Note that this should indeed be done on all DMAs because this delete will NOT be synced during the midnight sync of the cluster. The folder will...

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Hi Seppe, You have encountered a bug with the group component, this is supposed to work. It seems that the group component doesn't work with other components that do not need a data input. I have created...

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Hi Jaroslaw, You cannot do this with a dashboard, but you can with a low code app. This can be done by configuring a template on the column you want to open the popup for. The template should have a shape...

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Hi Sigan, This can be easily done using the grid component. When editing the template of the component, you can use a text shape to display HTML. This shape also allows the insertion of a column values...

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Hi Apurva, You could leverage the DMS callback that allows you to send any SLNet message (see docs). This callback can be used to retrieve all elements using the  'GetLiteElementInfo' message. These...

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Hi David, You can retrieve the full name of the user that is executing the query using the GQIDMS class. The GetUserFullNameMessage can then be used to retrieve the user.

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Hi Yvan, The centers of the markers are used when positioning them on their assigned coordinates. Currently, this behavior is not configurable. You can however create a template for which the center of...

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Hi Baranisudha You have 2 options to add conditional coloring to a table cell based on the cell value: Conditional coloring: here you can configure different colors for the cell based on different...

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Hi Baranisudha There is currently no way to link a trigger component to a query filter or to let a query filter refresh its data using an action. We have a task on our backlog to implement these features....

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Hi Miguel When you use the query from the query filter as a data input for the grid, this won't be possible. This is because the query filter component is only initialized whenever the panel is opened....

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Hi Juan Can you try visualizing the data from the right graph in a table visualization? This will give you a clear overview of the trend points that the graph is displaying. If no rows are returned from...

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Hi Yahya Currently, this component does not have the option to display a time legend. You will only be able to see the time when hovering over a specific section. When this interactivity is very important,...

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Hi Geovanny Generating a PDF is process with multiple steps, one of which is stitching the different parts together using the ComposePDF call you found. While it is technically possible to create all...

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Hi Rijad There is currently no action that can be used for this. The existing 'select an item' action does not yet support specifying the row to select based on another selection. An option could be...

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Hi Anna Recently we have developed a new datatype, named 'variables', that can be used for exactly this use case. Variables can be used to create a single (constant) value that can be used all over the...

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Hi Jeroen All queries that are used on this dashboard have an extra 'view filter' input that can be used for exactly this purpose. By default it is linked to a feed from the URL. You can specify a view...

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Hi Baranisudha You can achieve this result using a grid component to display the different alarm counts. The template editor then allows you to configure custom templates based on your data for each row...

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Hi Wale In template overrides it is not possible to provide wildcards in conditions. If you want a condition that is always true, regardless of any column value or state, you can use the default state...

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Hi Hari One option would be to use the 'script output' feed of a button to execute a script and visualize the output in a text or web component using feed references. Note that this feed is only available...

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Hi Hari That arrow normally is used to re-order the data that is added to the component. In this case you seem to have found a bug since there is only 1 data instance present on the component, so there...

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Hi Enver There is currently no way to implement this exact behavior in a LCA. If this is a feature you are really interested in, you can create a feature suggestion.

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Hi Marco 'Not initialized' is the default value of the parameter you defined in your connector. This explains what you are seeing in your app, the parameter was never assigned a value from the available...

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Hi Petar, This is very possible using Low Code Apps. I have created an 2 examples of this: The Name property uses a Grid component with a template linked to my columns to display the data. The grid...

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Hi Jon, The 'Custom data' node refers to the first node in a query that is using an Ad Hoc data source. If the server doesn't support the node that can mean 2 things: The server got downgraded since...

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Hi Tim, It is not (easily) possible to apply your own custom CSS styling to a Dashboard/LCA. Both provide component & page/dashboard/app level customization that can be used to change the look. Allowing...

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Hi Ross, Looking at the screenshot you provided of the LCA, I notice that there is no highlighting in the HTML input and that the Web component shows the feed link as plaintext. Could it be that you are...

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Hi Jeroen, It is possible to specify a value for the dropdown component using the URL (see docs). In the attached example, I have a dropdown with all my elements & I use the URL to select a value...

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Hi Ladan, It doesn't matter where the embedded app is hosted, as long as it can be accessed from the same machine the LCA is accessed from. This means that using the localhost URL will not work when the...

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Hi Koen, The fields in a DOM form only fetch a limited amount of items to keep the form more performant. You can narrow down the results by entering a filter, which will fetch more items that match the...

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Hi Kévin, It is currently not possible to mark a column of an Ad Hoc source as discrete. A possible workaround could be to enable the Filter assistance setting of the Query filter component. This will...

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Hi Yahya, What you are experiencing is the 30s request timeout of the cloud when accessing dashboards using dataminer.services. The specific cause here is your query that requests data, but doesn't retrieve...

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Hi Gilles, The new version of the GQI line chart component expects each assigned query to return a row for each point that should be on the graph. These points are then connected in order to visualize...

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Hi Daniel, It is currently not possible to import/export queries between Dashboards & LCA using the UI. Manipulating the underlying files will work, but this is very error prone and may not work in...

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Hi Thomas, The error that you are seeing is shown when the parameter table component doesn't know what element to show. This happens when you add a protocol parameter to the table but no element. You...

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