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Table Plugin

Gives extra control of table display:

  • Allows sorting
  • Changing table properties like border width, cell spacing and cell padding
  • Changing background color for header cells
  • Changing background color for data cells - colors can alternate
  • Behaviour can be specified for a specific table using %TABLE{...}% or with global preferences

TablePlugin Global Settings

Plugin settings are stored as preferences variables. To reference a plugin setting write %<plugin>_<setting>%, for example, %INTERWIKIPLUGIN_SHORTDESCRIPTION%

  • One line description, shown in the TextFormattingRules topic:
    • Set SHORTDESCRIPTION = Control attributes of tables and sorting of table columns

  • Set DEBUG to 1 to get debug messages in data/debug.txt. Default: 0
    • Set DEBUG = 0

  • Table border width. Default: 1
    • Set TABLEBORDER = 1

  • Table cell padding. Default: 0
    • Set CELLPADDING = 0

  • Table cell spacing. Default: 1
    • Set CELLSPACING = 1

  • Color for header cells ('*'s around text). Default: #99CCCC
    • #Set HEADER_BG = red

  • Background color for table rows, two alternate colors. Default: #FFFFCC,#FFFFFF
    • Set DATA_BG = #FFFFCC,#FFFFFF

  • Make sortable:
    • #Set SORT = attachments
    • Set SORT = all
    • #Set SORT = none

Sorting

Click on column heading text to sort by a column. Initial column will be sorted in descending order, click again to get ascending order. The type of data in the cell is determined automatically:

  • date if format is:
    • dd MMM YYY - hh:mm
    • dd-MMM-YY or dd-MM-YYYY (can be / or space in place of -)
    • MMM is Jan, Feb, etc
  • number is digits, with optional decimal point
  • otherwise treated as text

Per Table Settings

On line before the table use %TABLE{...}%:

Argument Comment Example
sort Set table sorting on or off sort="on"
headerbg Header cell background colour headerbg="#99CCCC"
databg Data cell background colour, a comma seperated list databg="#C8CB8F,#DBDDB5"
tableborder Table border width (pixels) tableborder="2"
cellpadding Cell padding (pixels) cellpadding="0"
cellspacing Cell spacing (pixels) cellspacing="3"

All default to the global setting

Examples

Line before table: %TABLE{sort="on" tableborder="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" headerbg="#99CCCC" databg="#C8CB8F,#DBDDB5"}%

Num Status Action Who Whenup Progress
5   Abc John    
3   Get feedback Anne 1-Feb-02  
2 X Release John 1-Apr-02  
1 C Chose new colours John 1-Dec-02  
12 C Spec error handling Jack 1-Dec-02  

Plugin Installation Instructions

  • Download the ZIP file from the Plugin web (see below)
  • Unzip TablePlugin.zip in your twiki installation directory. Content:
    File: Description:
    data/TWiki/TablePlugin.txt Plugin topic
    data/TWiki/TablePlugin.txt,v Plugin topic repository
    lib/TWiki/Plugins/TablePlugin.pm Plugin Perl module
    pub/TWiki/TablePlugin/diamond.gif Diamond symbol
    pub/TWiki/TablePlugin/down.gif Down arrow
    pub/TWiki/TablePlugin/up.gif Up arrow
  • Test if the plugin is correctly installed:
    • Check above example if the table renders as expected
    • Try click on heading to sort. Other tables should also be sortable

Plugin Info

Plugin Author: JohnTalintyre?
Plugin Version: 05 Jan 2002
Change History: 05 Jan 2002 PTh: Fixed sorting bug of cells with leading white space
06 Dec 2001 PTh: Fixed date sorting bug
03 Dec 2001 PTh: Fixed sort="off" bug and more
29 Nov 2001: PTh fixed Perl warnings
16 Nov 2001: PTh added table border, cell spacing, cell padding, gif files
07 Oct 2001: Initial version
CPAN Dependencies: none
Other Dependencies: none
Perl Version: 5.0
Plugin Home: http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/TablePlugin
Feedback: http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/TablePluginDev

Related Topics: TWikiPreferences, TWikiPlugins

-- JohnTalintyre? - 07 Oct 2001
-- PeterThoeny - 05 Jan 2002

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r9 - 05 Jan 2002 - 08:17:00 - PeterThoeny?
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