"Generate" a Table Creator node

The Table Creator node is quite possibly my personal-least-favourite KNIME node because configuring and naming the columns, setting the data types for each and typing in the data (or copy/pasting)… well let’s just say it doesn’t do it for me.

Which made me think “wouldn’t it be great if”…

Wouldn’t it be great if there were an option on the output ports of any node that you could select and it would instantly generate the definition of the equivalent Table Creator node in clipboard, containing the data and structure of that output table, which you could then paste directly onto the workflow.

That in my mind would be fantastic from a productivity point of view, and simply a really cool feature -when demo-ing KNIME.

Just think… throw some data in a workflow, transform it and without even thinking you could take the output and drop it on a new workflow as a Table Creator. Trust me, there’ll be use cases for this when trying to share some sample/intermediate data with colleagues on a new flow, where you’ll suddenly wondered how you got by without it :slight_smile:

Some of you will probably read this and think “what’s the point”, or some other less polite version! … but if you know… you know… and if you know… please remember to vote! :wink:

Interesting. This doesn’t seem like a feature corresponding to a specific node or port; rather, it appears to be a global feature that should even be categorized as an enhancement within the table spec tab. Perhaps figuring out how to place it there logically would make more sense.

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Yes you are right @HaveF. I should clarify that in talking about the “output port of any node” I wasn’t meaning that it had to be specifically a function of the node itself, but rather an option that can be selected somewhere when viewing the output port, so yes this could be an enhancement to the table viewer, and maybe a good location for the facility would be a button on the viewer pane at the bottom of the modem UI, alongside the button that opens the currently displayed data table in a popup window.