datasource driven table-layout

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I can use a grid to display an enter data. But I'd like a tablelayout, populated be a datasource:

number of rows unkonwn at design time
repeated values could merge via row-span
not yet enterd data could be "behind" colspan element
datasource would supply row-span an col-span

 orderline      item  amount amt-shipped  deliv-id   amt-billed  inv-id
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
        1      aaa   10        0           -           0          -
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
        2      bbb   20       8           4711        4         8001     
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
        2      bbb   20       8           4711        4         8002
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
        2      bbb   20       2           4712        0          -
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

would become a nice dynamically created table layout:

orderline item amount amountshipped deliv-id amount-billes invoice-id
------------------------------------------------------------------------
    1      aaa   10   |     not-yet-shipped
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                      |                      |      5         8001     
                      |     8          4711  |--------------------------
    2      bbb   20   |                      |      5         8002
                      |-------------------------------------------------
                      |     2          4712  |    not-yet-billed
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Hi Paul,

We have plans to extend the capabilities of Formspider to support such designs. There is no time table set to implement this feature though.

Kind Regards,
Yalim

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answered 03 Dec '14, 09:27

Yalim ♦♦
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We implemented a new panel type called repeatPanel in FS Mobile which is not exactly what you want but would give you a lot more flexibility in your Panel designs. A repeatPanel is a panel with a datasource attached. Formspider loops over the rows in this datasource and keeps adding the content of the panel for each row in the datasource to the screen.

We intend to bring something similar to FS Desktop at some point.

(03 Dec '14, 09:33) Yalim ♦♦

Let me clarify the explanation of repeatPanel a little bit. It doesn't "redraw" the content, I think a better way to put it is it keeps adding new tags to the Panel XML while looping over the rows. I edited the previous comment accordingly.

(03 Dec '14, 10:32) Yalim ♦♦

Answer 2

0	Hi Paul, The easiest way to achieve this is to populate an HTML table based on your data display it through the htmlEditor component. Hope this helps, Ibrahim link answered 02 Dec '14, 13:49 Ibrahim Sand... ♦♦ 1.5k●5 accept rate: 25%

Answer 3

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Great idea but that would be read only, right? I cannot put formspider textFields into an htmlEditor's text?

And it would be the Formspider look and feel, (decoration etc), right?

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answered 02 Dec '14, 16:36

dipr
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edited 02 Dec '14, 17:59

Hi Paul,

The HTML you'd generate would be standard HTML and would have nothing to do with Formspider. It would be like a web page showing inside a Formspider application.

(03 Dec '14, 09:25) Yalim ♦♦

Answer 4

0	Sounds very cool! I vote for "repeatPanel" in FS Desktop as feedback-collection test-item! How would I differenciate the various instances that got repeated? link answered 03 Dec '14, 14:44 dipr 156●1●5●37 accept rate: 0%

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