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table element

kajjubee

Hi
Does anyone have code snippet for populating the table element in a dct where they can choose to insert rows/ columns without any presentation. I would like an alternative to VF. Thanks

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iwovGraduate

Not sure what you mean by "table element in a dct" -- can you explain a little ?

An alternative to VF without WISYWIG would be to use <textarea> tag without VF options.

Drew_The_Goat

Funny, I currently am trying to create a set of table entry fields for a DCT that will allow a user to add table content but have it saved as XML structures (an XSL will later convert the XML to HTML).

This is super basic, but I used a fixed number of columns and variable amount of rows- it writes to XML crean enough:


<container combination="and" max="5" min="0" name="table" location = "content/table">
<label>Table</label>
<container combination="and" max="20" min="0" name="row" location = "row">
<label>Row</label>
<item name="Table Column1" pathid ="content/table/row/column1" >
<label>Col 1</label>
<text size="10" maxlength="50" rowcontinue="t"/>
</item>

<item name="Table_Column2" pathid ="content/table/row/column2" >
<label>Col 2</label>
<text size="10" maxlength="50" rowcontinue="t" />
</item>

<item name="Table_Column3" pathid ="content/table/row/column3" >
<label>Col 3</label>
<text size="10" maxlength="50" rowcontinue="t"/>
</item>

<item name="Table_Column4" pathid ="content/table/row/column4" >
<label>Col 4</label>
<text size="10" maxlength="50" rowcontinue="t"/>
</item>

<item name="Table_Column5" pathid ="content/table/row/column5" >
<label>Col 5</label>
<text size="10" maxlength="50" rowcontinue="t"/>
</item>

<item name="Table_Column6" pathid ="content/table/row/column6" >
<label>Col 6</label>
<text size="10" maxlength="50" rowcontinue="t" />
</item>

<item name="Table_Column7" pathid ="content/table/row/column7" >
<label>Col 7</label>
<text size="10" maxlength="50" rowcontinue="t"/>
</item>

<item name="Table_Column8" pathid ="content/table/row/column8" >
<label>Col 8</label>
<text size="10" maxlength="50" />
</item>
</container>
</container>



Here is a sample of the XML output:

<table>
- <row>
<column1>bfs</column1>
<column2>bs</column2>
<column3>bf</column3>
<column4>bsdf</column4>
<column5>asd</column5>
<column6>afas</column6>
<column7>afds</column7>
<column8>afsd</column8>
</row>
<row>
<column1>bfs</column1>
<column2>bs</column2>
<column3>bf</column3>
<column4>bsdf</column4>
<column5>asd</column5>
<column6>afas</column6>
<column7>afds</column7>
<column8>afsd</column8>
</row>
</table>

Good luck, let me know if you find a better way.

Drew

Drew_The_Goat

Here is another approach that has variable columns and rows:


<container combination="and" max="5" min="0" name="table" location = "content/table">
<label>Table</label>
<container combination="and" max="20" min="0" name="column" location = "column">
<label>Column</label>
<item name="Row" pathid ="content/table/column/row" >
<label>Row</label>
<text size="50" maxlength="50" rowcontinue="t" max="20" min="0"/>
</item>

</container>
</container>

kajjubee

What I meant with table element is to have a table in my html, I needed to capture the rows and columns for the table in the DCT. Providing replicants for rows and columns would make the DCT long and not-so-friendly. Any custom cgi script would help.

Thanks

Adam Stoller

I suppose you could have a CGI that prompts for number of rows and columns, and then have it render a table with text-fields in each cell - and on submit, captures all the data and [potentially] formats it before sticking the data into the DCR - and then have your PT read it and [re-]format it as per your requirements.

That doesn't sound toooooo difficult. The tricky parts are:
1) dealing with pre-existing data on callout
2) potentially allowing for re-sizing pre-existing data
3) formatting the data for insertion into the DCR

This actually sounds like it could be some fun to develop - unfortunately (perhaps) my customer doesn't require this functionality so I don't have sufficient incentive to actually work on developing it. If you're interested in putting together a design document for it, let me know - I'll be happy to try and pitch some ideas....

--fish
Senior Consultant, Quotient Inc.
http://www.quotient-inc.com

Johnny

Actually if you havent already, I would try testing a DCT with 6.1

The visual layout is alot better with proper indentation.

New features like Item References would make this much more simpler to create and layout.

Have a look at the forms publisher webcast, it has some good examples.

John Cuiuli

templates_guru

This is exactly what our team developed couple years ago and it was very well received by the client...
It took a HTML developer and a TeamSite developer about a week to build it. No real hitches...pretty straightforward but very cool.