You need to make the header and data row, columns field to make hidden and along with that you need to adjust the table column width. There is property columnWidths.
You need to adjust the column width as per your requirement.
eg: this.columnWidths = "10mm 11mm, 12mm, ....."; like this.
For the ...
With the drop down alone its difficult i guess, the " expand to fit " property is disabled for dropdown.
One another workaround is to take hidden textfield along with dropdown and show/hide these 2 as per the selection. I dont know if it will solve your purpose.
You need to explore monitoring service here I think.
AEM Forms Monitoring Service
https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/experience-manager-cloud-manager/content/using/monitoring-environments
Check your component.xml file, compare with adobe document for component creation. You might be missing in the section in which jar need to include in component.xml file
Include the jar in your DSC and reference it in the classpath node in the component.xml file.
So when you are creating the jar file, open the jar file and check if the jar file contains the required jar's needed for your app.
As you are saying that, its working in your local system, so the issue is only with the same jar is not getting exported with the jar you are creating for the server or...
Are you parsing the json data received from SOAP UI? It will not be set directly to variable in the workbench.
You need to use an Execute Script activity or another supported mechanism to parse the JSON string and set the data to your workbench variable in the process.