I want to perform some operation on the data table, such as producing a correlation matrix (cor(dt)). In order to do this, I want to remove a few columns that contain non-numeric values or values outside a certain range.
Display columns do not have a data model which means they cannot be sorted, filtered, etc, but they can be used to display arbitrary content in the table, eg. a row actions button, checkbox, expander, etc.
The docs also mention this about custom rendering of cell content:By default, columns cells will display their data model value as a string. You can override this behavior by providing custom rendering implementations. ... You can provide a custom cell formatter by passing a function to the cell property ...
This article is about querying data found in tables. You can also use Web API to query data about table definitions, or entity metadata. The structure of the data is different, so many of the capabilities described here do not apply. More information: Query table definitions using the Web API and Query schema definitions
If you want to retrieve data from the account EntityType, where a specific user is the OwningUser, you can use the user_accounts collection-valued navigation property from the specified systemuser record.
You can apply multiple options to a query. Separate query options from the resource path with a question mark (?). Separate each option after the first with an ampersand (&). Option names are case-sensitive.
You can use parameter aliases for $filter and $orderby query options, but not inside the $expand option. Parameter aliases allow you to use the same value multiple times in a request. If the alias isn't assigned a value, it's assumed to be null.
Use the $select query option to choose which columns to return with your query. In OData, every column is represented as a property. If you don't include a $select query option, all properties are returned.
Other property values may also be included. In this case, the _transactioncurrencyid_value lookup property for the related Currency (TransactionCurrency) table/entity reference is included because revenue is a currency property.
For example, many tables have records that users or teams may own. Ownership data is stored in a lookup column named ownerid. This column is a single-valued navigation property in OData. You could use $expand to create a join to get this value, but you can't use $select. However, you can use the corresponding _ownerid_value lookup property with $select.
When you include the _ownerid_value lookup property with your $select, it returns a GUID value. This value doesn't tell you whether the owner of the record is a user or a team. You need to request annotations to get this data.
The following response returns two different account records. A team owns the first one, and a systemuser owns the second one. The _owneri...@Microsoft.Dynamics.CRM.lookuplogicalname annotation provides this information.
As with any query, always limit the columns returned using $select when you use $expand. For example, the following request returns the contact.fullname and task.subject values in the expanded results from the account entity type:
Expanding a collection-valued navigation property can make the size of the response large in ways it's difficult to anticipate. It's important that you include limits to control how much data is returned. You can limit the number of records by using paging. More information: Page results
There is a significant difference in how paging is applied to nested $expand options applied to collection valued navigation properties. More information: Expand collection-valued navigation properties
The createdby single-valued navigation property returns an instance of the systemuser EntityType. Both systemuserid and ownerid properties are returned. This is because systemuser inherits from principal EntityType and shares the ownerid primary key with team EntityType through this inheritance.
Instead of returning data, you can also return references, or links, to the related records by expanding the single-valued navigation property with the /$ref option. The following example returns JSON objects with an @odata.id property that has a URL for each primary contact.
If you use only single-level $expand, no paging is applied applied to the expanded rows. If you include the Prefer: odata.maxpagesize request header, paging is only applied to the EntitySet resource of the query.
Each expanded collection-valued navigation property returns a @odata.nextLink URL that includes no paging information. It's a URL that represents the filtered collection for the relationship with your query options appended. You can use that URL to send a separate GET request and it returns the same rows that were returned in your original request. You can apply paging to that request.
Because no paging is applied to the expanded records, up to 5,000 related records can be returned for each expanded collection-valued navigation property. Depending on your data and the query, it could be a lot of data. Returning that much data could affect performance and possibly cause your request to time out. Be cautious about the queries you compose. You can use $top, $filter, and $orderby options to control the total number of records returned.
The following example includes a single expand of the Account_Tasks and contact_customer_accounts while retrieving account records. The Prefer: odata.maxpagesize=1 request header ensures that only one account record is returned in the first page.
Compare this response with the following example, which includes a nested $expand. Scroll the example response horizontally to see that only the @odata.nextLink URL for the account result contains paging information.
Each expanded collection-valued navigation property returns a @odata.nextLink URL that includes paging information. You can use that URL to send a separate GET request and it will return the next set of records that weren't included in your original request.
Compare this response with the previous example, which doesn't use a nested $expand. In this response, the Prefer: odata.maxpagesize=1 request header is applied to the task records returned with Account_Tasks. Only one task is returned instead of three. The Accoun...@odata.nextLink URL returns the next two tasks. Scroll the example response horizontally to see that Accoun...@odata.nextLink, contact_cust...@odata.nextLink, a...@odata.nextLink URLs contain paging information.
Use the $orderby query option to specify the order in which items are returned. Use the asc or desc suffix to specify ascending or descending order, respectively. The default is ascending. The following example retrieves the name and revenue properties of accounts, ordered by ascending revenue and descending name:
Specify an order for your query. With FetchXml, if you don't add any order elements to your query, Dataverse adds an order based on the primary key of the table. However QueryExpression does not, and when your query specifies distinct results, no primary key values are returned, so Dataverse can't add this default order. You must specify a paging order. Without any order specified, distinct query results might be returned in random order. OData doesn't provide any option to return distinct results, but you should still apply an order when retrieving paged results.
Paging is dynamic. Each request is evaluated independently as they're received. A paging cookie tells Dataverse the previous page. With this paging cookie data, Dataverse can start with the next record after the last one on the preceding page.
Paging works best going forward. If you go back and retrieve a page you previously retrieved, the results can be different because records could be added, deleted, or modified during since you last retrieved the page. In other words, if your page size is 50 and you go back, you get 50 records, but they might not be the same 50 records. If you keep progressing forward through the pages of a data set, you can expect all the records are returned in a consistent sequence.
Deterministic ordering means that there's a way to calculate an order consistently. With a given set of records, the records are always returned in the same order. If you need consistent orders and paging, you must include some unique values or combination of column values that are and specify an order for them to be evaluated.
Let's look at an example that is nondeterministic. This data set contains only State and Status information and is filtered to only return records in an open State. The results are ordered by Status. The first three pages are requested. The results look like this:
The paging cookie saves information about the last record on the page. When the next page is requested, the last record from the first page isn't included. However, given the nondeterministic data, there's no guarantee that the other two records on the first page aren't included in the second page.
This query is like the nondeterministic one, but it includes the Case ID column that includes unique values. It's also ordered by Status, but also ordered using Case ID. The results look like this:
When possible, queries should order on the primary key for the table because Dataverse is optimized for ordering on the primary key by default. Ordering by non-unique or complex fields cause excess overhead and slower queries.
When you retrieve a limited set of data to display in an application, or if you need to return more than 5,000 rows of data, you need to page the results. The choices you make in determining the order of the results can determine whether the rows in each page of data you retrieve overlaps with other pages. Without proper ordering, the same record can appear in more than one page.
Dataverse evaluates each resource in the collection using the expression set for $filter. Only records where the expression evaluates to true are returned in the response. Records aren't returned if the expression evaluates to false or null, or if the user doesn't have read access to the record.
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