collective.tablepage 0.10.6

Configuring the table

The most important field is “Columns”, where you can define the column structure of you table.

For every column you can define some information like header’s content and other description, but you must also define the type of data in the column.

You can add as many columns as you want; users that will fill your table won’t be able to change what you have defined.

Filling the table

Configuration is not changing anything in your layout, but users with Contributor role on this document will see a new tab: “Edit table”.

When accessing the “Edit table data” view, users will be able to add new rows to the table and edit their own rows. The form given to the user is generated using the configuration options that the document creator defined before.

Some note:

• Every added row is put at the end of the table or at the end of section (see below)

• Every Contributor is able to edit or delete his own rows

• Users with “Editor” roles are able to edit or delete all rows

• Users with “Editor” roles are able change row order

When switching back to main document view the generated table is part of the document body text.

Table labels and sections

Users with power of configuring the table can also add a special type or row: Label. Apart the UI changes, labels break the table in groups of logical rows: every group start at the position of the label at end at the next label (or at the end of the table).

If one or more labels are used, contributors will be able to add new rows at the end of the section instead of adding only at the end of the table.

In the table configuration there’s a field named “Criteria for adding new rows”. Changing this value from “At the end” (default) to “At the beginning” will change the adding method: new rows will be added at the beginning of every groups.

Download and Upload data

Data stored in the table can be downloaded, and optionally you can display a download link also to page visitors (activate the “Show download link for data” inside “Settings”). When the download icon is used in the “Edit table” view, downloaded data is compatible to the upload CSV feature described above (columns ids are used instead of titles, contents uids instead of URL to referenced contents, …)

Contributors can also upload data using a CSV file. The file must provide a row with column ids defined in the configuration. Columns with an unknow id will be ignored.

If the configuration has not already been defined, all CSV headers will be used to quickly init the configuration (but columns types will always be “String”).

Column cache

Some of the columns above enable a persistent cache. This can be needed for large tables, where a lot of those columns can slow down the page.

Cache is automatically invalidated when the column is modified, however is possible that invalid data is still shown in the table. For example: you create a link to a file, so displaying it’s title, but meanwhile an editor changed the title of the file.

Columns of type “File” and “Files”

Columns of type file(s) are the most complex.

When adding or editing a row the user is able to upload new files, creating a new Plone File content, or selecting existing files from the site. In both cases permissions matters: the user must have permisson of adding new file in the storage folder or see it. The storage folder is configured by the document creator.

When rendering the table, a link to download the file is displayed.

Column of type “Link”

The link column can be used to store absolute links (externals) of links to site’s contents. In that case: it’s automatically used the Plone native widget archetypes.referencebrowserwidget

You can change how the link itself is displayed by adding some rows in the “Column configuration” section:

title:something

The link text will be always “something”

icon:url-or-relative-path-to-image

An image will be displayed and, in case of an internal link, no text will be displayed

Column of type “Computed”

When writing the TALES expression to be used in computed fields you can access general vars like:

context

The current page with table

portal

The Plone site root

index

The index of the current row

row

The current row. using this you can access data taken from other columns in the same row.

The row var in the most powerful: based on the type of column you are referencing, you can read different data. For example: accessing a File, Files and Link column, you can read information of the referenced object.

Some examples:

row/file_column/title

(show the title of the file_column column in the same row)

python:row['files_column'][0].Title

(show the title of the first file in the files_column column in the same row)

row/link_column/absolute_url|row/link_column

(show the link of the link_column even it’s an internal link or an absolute ones)

Even if this column normally don’t implements any cache, you can specify a custom cache by defining an additional configuration line in the “Column configuration” field.

Just write something like…

your/tal/espression
cache:3600

…to cache column’s result for an hour.

Limitations

You have some important limitations:

• no other kind of indexes are supported right now

• you have one catalog, so you must handle (or avoid) columns ids used in more that one page with table

0.10.6 (2015-07-31)

• Fixed #21, SelectField validator always failed validating non-ascii vocabulary characters [petri]

• Updated Finnish translations [petri]

• Removed the orphan usage in batching. It’s leading to an error with plone.batching 1.0.4, and a strange behavior with 1.0.5. [keul]

0.10.5 (2015-05-21)

• Fixed versioning issue that force tablepages to be updated (in AT edit) to see versioning working if versioning is enabled during the document life-cycle [keul]

• Files columns was not sorting attachments in any way [keul]

0.10.4 (2015-05-15)

• Numeric and Monetary fields were not selectable for searches [keul]

0.10.3 (2015-05-15)

• Fixed an issue introduced on version 0.10.1, that make tablepage impossible to be run on Plone<4.3. [keul]

0.10.2 (2015-05-14)

• Do not show search form when table is empty [keul]

• Search form was not working properly when “Single value search” was not selected [keul]

• Download as CSV was not taking care of applying search filters [keul]

• Added a new “col-columnid” CSS class to every header and data cell [keul]

• Multi page view was not applying any CSS class to table headers [keul]

0.10.1 (2014-11-27)

• Fixed issue when using date search without other search criteria [keul]

• Row commands were not displayed properly on first row in subs page if a label was present of first ones [keul]

• When editing table redirect user to last page if we are in append mode [keul]

0.10 (2014-10-22)

• New columns: “Date” and “Date/Time”. This close #7 [keul]

• Some visual changes to very small tables [keul]

0.9 (2014-10-01)

Special thanks to Petri Savolainen for lot of stuff done in this release

• When editing table, row’s uuid is put on data-uid attribute on row [keul]

• Removed useless fieldset legend when editing a row. This close #13 [keul]

• Fixed updated row count message when using the refresh button [keul]

• Caches are now pre-populated at write time, not when the first read attempt happen. This will also fix a catalog index bug with Computed columns [keul]

• Fixed issue in Link and File columns: was not possible to delete submitted data but only possible to change it [keul]

• Fixed critical bug: when deleting a row, following rows were still indexed with old (wrong) position value. This will lead to strage behavior when searches are performed [keul]

• Implemented the computed vocabulary feature: vocabulary source can be taken from a TALES evaluation (close #10) [petri, keul]

• Multi tables view was not using batchin or search [keul]

• Search form method from POST to GET (batching was using GET already) [keul]

• Removed min number of rows needed for enabling DataTables (close #16) [keul]

• Usability improvements. When using DataTables and we don’t have any row groups, move the (unique) “Add row” button in the lower section (close #11) [keul]

• Fixed an issue that store icons absolute URL in the cache for “linkable” columns (close #14) [keul]

0.8.1 (2014-07-23)

• Migration fixes from older releases [keul]

• Some minimal JSHint cleanup on the 3rd party jquery.dataTables.rowGrouping.js file that sometimes can create problems with compression. Also provided a pre-minified version. See #14279). [keul]

0.8 (2014-07-11)

• Added Finnish translation [petri]

• Fixed encoding issue with vocabulary values using selection column (close #5) [keul]

0.8b3 (2014-06-26)

• Yet another Plone 3 compatibility fix [keul]

• Fixed critical bug in search: path was not used for finding labels [keul]

• Fixing AdvancedQuery integration and removing unused indexes. This fix critical bug that make query look for “access inactive portal content” permission [keul]

• Fixed an evil bug that populate caches of computed fields with bad values when search are performed [keul]

0.8b2 (2014-06-04)

• Part of the migration step from 0.8a2 was missing [keul]

0.8b1 (2014-06-03)

• Purge cache command was only working for indexed columns [keul]

• uuid was not provided when CSV upload feature was used [keul]

• Prevent BadRequest exception when uploading the same file twice [keul]

• Restored usage of labels, also with search [keul]

• Fixed a bug with labels and batching: starting item were skipped if a label from previous page was present [keul]

0.8a2 (2014-05-20)

• Fix compatibility errors with documents created with version 0.7 and below [keul]

• icon: and title: features also for internal links [keul]

• Error migrating from 0.7: the catalog was created inside the portal_setup tool! [keul]

• Added a new “refresh catalog” command on tables [keul]

• Indexing of cached values is now trying to invalidating cache first. This prevent infinite caching of computed columns [keul]

• Changes to cache generation, to reduce ConflictError [keul]

0.8a1 (2014-04-30)

• Fixed a bug that break CSV export when computed columns are used [keul]

• Added minimal Link colums diplay prefs (a fixed link text or icon) [keul]

• Fixed wrong column configuration cache [keul]

• Fixed appearence of “No rows” section on Plone that are not using plone.batching [keul]

• Enable DataTables only if we have some rows to show. This fix visual issues with some layouts [keul]

• Link column: put the external value for rel for external links and not for internal ones [keul]

• Added search features [keul]

0.7 (2014-03-19)

• Multiple tables view was unreachable on emtpy tables [keul]

• The jquery.dataTables.rowGrouping.js plugin is disabled by default [keul]

• Multiple multi-files columns in the same table was not working [keul]

• Fixed minor JavaScript errors [keul]

• Styles fixes: main column (HTML) label is a little bigger that default Plone form labels [keul]

• Prevent new label from load a wrong default text [keul]

• Do not display empty icon in link column [keul]

• New “insertType” configuration (new row at the end or beginning of groups) [keul]

• New column type: “Computed” [keul]

• Fixed a problem with link-like columns and cache. Do not return object absolute_url because a backend URL could be cached. Instead use the resolveuid URL and run table through portal_trasform when in view. Drawback of the approach: when editing the table’s URLs still use resolveuid [keul]

• Added batching/pagination [keul]

0.6 (2014-02-25)

• Multiple tables view was not properly display HTML [keul]

• Added caching for rendered columns. This will speed up a little/lot table rendering [keul]

• Moved inline JavaScript to separate resource files [keul]

• Show/Hide command now act also on page header and footer (Zen Mode!) [keul]

0.5 (2014-02-06)

• The unique validator was preventing record update [keul]

• Monetary column will pad the final zero in less that 2 decimal are supplied (123.5 will be 123.50) [keul]

0.5b4 (2014-02-04)

• Fixed a bug that break link columns when the linked content is no more [keul]

• Fixed error when validating old rows, created before version 0.5 [keul]

0.5b3 (2014-01-31)

• Do not use the HTML 5 number type anymore because of Google Chrome stupidity [keul]

• Fixed a Python 2.4 bug in interpreting CSV format [keul]

• Do not fail the whole import procedure if a CSV row is missing some columns [keul]

0.5b2 (2014-01-29)

• Fixed error when editing old rows, created before version 0.5 [keul]

• The import from CSV form can be used when no configuration has been given. A basical configuration will be guessed by columns headers [keul]

• Select colum now enforce vocabulary values [keul]

• New column type: “Monetary” [keul]

• When exporting in CSV, always quote data. This prevent some fancy Excel/OpenOffice interpretation [keul]

• Column validator can be executed also when importing from CSV [keul]

0.5b1 (2014-01-13)

• Soft dependency on jQuery DataTables plus “Row Grouping Add-on”. This add new features like live-search in table, batching and colum sorting. [keul]

• Added a JavaScript command for expand/collapse available view when editing (this can help in cases where you added a lot of columns) [keul]

• Fixed critical error in the “Files” column; when selecting existing file the column id was ignored [keul]

• Added new feature: registering validators [keul]

• Added validator for required field [keul]

• Added validator for unique field [keul]

• New field type: “Email”, for inserting an text in e-mail format [keul]

• New field type: “Numeric”, for inserting an text in numerical format [keul]

0.4.1 (2014-01-03)

• Added uninstall profile [keul]

• Fixed bug in finding duplicate rows when importing from CSV (close #1) [keul]

0.4 (2013-11-14)

• Do not display selection checkbox if I can’t delete a row [keul]

• Raise lifecycle events properly when creating files [keul]

• New field type: “Files”, for uploading a set of files to be rendered in the same cell [keul]

• Labels inside the table are now supported [keul]

• New view for displaying data on multiple tables [keul]

• New field type: “Link”, for inserting an URL or an internal reference [keul]

• CSV export done by backend get UUIDs when applicable [keul]

• CSV import now validate data: do not import every text you read from the file [keul]

• CSV import now transform URL/path to valid content uuids [keul]

0.3 (2013-10-18)

• Different versioning message when a row is changed or modified [keul]

• Added missing versioning attempt when using CSV upload [keul]

• Fixed a performance/security problem: data inside text cells were transformed to HTML without any check (and this was also really slow) [keul]

• Can now delete multiple (or all) rows [keul]

• CSV import is not importing anymore inside wrong colum when an unknow header is found [keul]

0.2 (2013-10-11)

• Fixed missing translations [keul]

• Do not display “download as CSV” for empty tables [keul]

• Added an option for choosing when display headers [keul]

• Handle loading of duplicate file id: file is not loaded twice but same reference is kept [keul]

• Do not display “Edit table” or row’s commands if no configuration has been set [keul]

0.1.2 (2013-09-27)

• fixed encoding error on columns headers [keul]

• fixed encoding error on editing rows [keul]

0.1.1 (2013-09-23)

• Fixed UnicodeDecodeError problem with non-ASCII chars [keul]

0.1 (2013-09-19)

• Initial release