11.7. User Accessible Tables
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## 11.7. User Accessible Tables

User Accessible Tables (UATs) are a type of preference table which may be associated with particular protocols or with the application as a whole.

User Accessible Tables have a common editor dialog which works as described in Section 11.5.8, “Expert Items” and Section 11.5.9, “Filter Buttons”. Note that the name of the file appears in the lower right corner of the dialog.

The files are saved in a CSV format, where values are either double quoted ASCII strings (using C-style backslash escapes for non-printable characters) or unquoted hexstrings, depending on the field type. They can be edited directly when Wireshark is not running, though this is discouraged. Entries can also be appended to the table by passing an appropriate CSV formatted record string on the command line.

Most UATs are stored in the configuration profile:

- Custom HTTP headers (custom_http_header_fields)
- Custom IMF headers (imf_header_fields)
- Custom LDAP AttributeValue types (custom_ldap_attribute_types)
- Display Filter Buttons (dfilter_buttons)
- Display Filter Macros (dfilter_macros), prior to Wireshark 4.4
- DNS Servers (addr_resolve_dns_servers)
- ESS Category Attributes (ess_category_attributes)
- Expert Item Severity (expert_severity)
- IEEE 802.11 WLAN Decryption Keys (80211_keys)
- IKEv2 decryption table (ikev2_decryption_table)
- I/O Graphs (io_graphs)
- Plots (plots)
- K12 Protocols (k12_protos)
- Object Identifier Names and Associated Syntaxes ()
- Packet Lengths (packet_lengths)
- PRES Users Context List (pres_context_list)
- SCCP Users Table (sccp_users)
- SNMP Enterprise Specific Trap Types (snmp_specific_traps)
- SNMP Users (snmp_users)
- User DLTs Table (user_dlts)
- Protobuf Search Paths (protobuf_search_paths)
- Protobuf UDP Message Types (protobuf_udp_message_types)

Other UATs are stored in the personal configuration directory and are common to all profiles:

- MaxMind Database Paths (maxmind_db_paths)
- RSA Private Keys (rsa_keys) and PKCS #11 Provider Libraries (pkcs11_libs)
- SMI Modules (smi_modules) and SMI Paths (smi_paths)

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