Project Table Preferences

These settings control the display of properties in the Project Table and the general display of the table.

Standard properties to show in new projects list

Select the standard properties to show when a new project is opened, from this list. By default, only the 2D Structure and Entry Name are not selected. Click a list item to select or to deselect it.

When new entries are added options

These options control which new properties are shown in the Project Table when new entries are added.

• Show all properties—Show all new properties when entries are added to the Project Table.
• Show only primary properties—Of the new properties that are added to the Project Table, show only the primary properties. The exception is properties imported from an SD file, all of which are shown by default.
• Do not show any new properties—Hide properties that are not already displayed in the Project Table when entries are added. This option is useful if you have a particular set of properties displayed that you are interested in and don't want the set to change when you add entries.

When sorting by a property, blank cells should be placed options

These options determine where blank cells are placed when sorting properties. Blank cells are cells that have no property value.

• At the top of the table—Place the rows with the blank cells at the top of the table, regardless of the sort criterion.
• At the bottom of the table—Place the rows with the blank cells at the bottom of the table, regardless of the sort criterion.
• As the lowest property value—Sort the rows with blank cells as though they had a value that was lower than any other in the column. The blank cells appear at the top of the table or the bottom of the table, depending on the sort direction.
• As the highest property value—Sort the rows with blank cells as though they had a value that was higher than any other in the column. The blank cells appear at the top of the table or the bottom of the table, depending on the sort direction.

Sort string values options

These options affect the order in which sorting is done when the property used to sort the table is a string. This preference applies to other tables and lists in Maestro as well as the Project Table.

• Alphanumerically—Sort strings with upper-case letters before lower-case letters and lower-case letters before numbers. A sequence of digits is treated as a single number for the purpose of the sort. This allows a sequence of strings that have increasing values of the numerical part to be sorted in ascending numerical sequence, while the rest is treated as a string. For example, if the sequence of strings was ligandn, where n ran from 1 to 100, ligand10 would follow ligand9, and ligand100 would follow ligand99. In ordinary string sorting, ligand10 would follow ligand1, and ligand100 would follow ligand10.

• Alphabetically—Sort strings in case-insensitive alphabetic order, with numbers preceding letters ("dictionary order"). No special treatment is given to sequences of digits.

These settings control the appearance of the Project Table.

Project Table theme

Set the coloring theme for the Project Table. The choices are Light or Dark.

Add N pixels of padding when fitting column width to data

Add padding of the specified number of pixels to either side of the column when using the commands that fit the columns to the data (Table → Columns → Fit to Data).

Justification options

These options determine how numeric and textual values are justified in the table cells. The options for each type of data are Left, Center, and Right. By default, numeric values are right-justified, which is generally equivalent to aligning numbers on the decimal point, because real properties are generally displayed with a fixed number of decimal places. Text is aligned left by default.