Layouts

This notebook shows how to access layouts through the Streamlined API.

Connect to Granta MI

from GRANTA_MIScriptingToolkit import granta as mpy
mi = mpy.connect('http://my.server.name/mi_servicelayer', autologon=True)
db = mi.get_db(db_key='MI_Training')

Access a layout and inspect its properties

The Table.layouts property contains a dict of all layouts in the table, indexed by the layout name. Show the first two elements in this dictionary.

table = db.get_table('MaterialUniverse')
list(table.layouts.items())[:2]

Previous cell output:

[('Polymers', <TableLayout: Polymers; categories: 23>),
 ('Metals', <TableLayout: Metals; categories: 18>)]

Each layout contains a list of categories. Select a particular Layout object and view the first two categories within the layout.

polymers_layout = table.layouts['Polymers']
polymers_layout.categories[:2]

Previous cell output:

['General properties', 'Composition overview']

The attributes_by_category property contains a dict of attributes indexed by their category. Display the attributes in the first two categories.

list(polymers_layout.attributes_by_category.items())[:2]

Previous cell output:

[('General properties',
  ['Designation', 'Tradenames', 'Density', 'Price', 'Material form']),
 ('Composition overview',
  ['Composition (summary)',
   'Polymer class',
   'Polymer type',
   'Polymer type full name',
   '% filler (by weight)',
   'Filler type',
   'Additive'])]