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 11.5.6, “Expert Items” and Section 11.5.7, “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:

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