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Re: Modular table

Greg Collins — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 21:36:20 GMT

Glad to hear you got it working. Thanks for sharing your solution with us.

Re: Modular table

djay — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 00:14:21 GMT

I finally got around to doing this. Ended up being really easy once I dug into it.

This is how I did it:

I have a repeating table in the dataset called "Column" which has a field "ColumnWidth" which is the width of the column and "ColumnHead" is the title of the column.

In managed code I have this function:

public string PopulateColumn(string Input)

{

return "<col style=\"WIDTH: " + Input + "px\"></col>";

}

Then in the views .xsl I found the table and rewrote colgroup to look like this:

<xsl:for-each select="my:Columns/my:Column">

<xsl:value-of select="xdExtension:Populatecolumn(string(my:ColumnWidth))" disable-output-escaping="yes"></xsl:value-of>

</xsl:for-each>

</colgroup>

And in the <tbody> tag I have things like this:

<xsl:for-each select="my:Columns/my:Column">

<td>

<div>

<xsl:value-of select="my:ColumnHead"></xsl:value-of>

</span>

</strong>

</div>

</td>

</xsl:for-each>

And of course the template this is in is set with a mode="xd:preserve"

Easy.

Re: Modular table

Greg Collins — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 00:52:38 GMT

You can always use a preserve code block (do a search for info about that) and write the table code yourself. Then you can do things like you are talking about.

The downside is that once you are in a preserve code block, you cannot modify the table in the designer--you have to do it by hand in the .xsl file.

Modular table

djay — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 22:06:48 GMT

I want a repeating table who's column widths is dynamic and can be set by a value in the data source (or pragmatically). The only way I can think to do this is by a custom ActiveX control. But I don't really want to reinvent the repeating table...
So, does anyone have any other ideas on how I could implement this?

Thanks.