Table Plugin

Gives extra control of table display:

• Allows sorting
• Changing table properties like border width, cell spacing and cell padding
• Changing background color and text color for header cells
• Changing background color and text color for data cells - colors can alternate
• Table attributes can be set and overridden in this order:
  • Default TABLEATTRIBUTES Plugin setting in this topic.
  • A TABLEATTRIBUTES preferences setting on site-level (TWikiPreferences) or web-level (any WebPreferences), e.g.
    • Set TABLEATTRIBUTES = tableborder="0" cellpadding="1" ...
  • Before a table using %TABLE{...}%

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

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

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

• Default table attributes:
  • Set TABLEATTRIBUTES = tableborder="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" headerbg="#99CCCC" databg="#FFFFCC, #FFFFFF"

Table Attributes

Attributes are defined as a TABLEATTRIBUTES Plugin setting in this topic, a TABLEATTRIBUTES preferences setting, or on line before the table using %TABLE{...}%:

The %TABLE{...}% settings override TABLEATTRIBUTES preferences settings, which override the TABLEATTRIBUTES Plugin settings.

Example

Line before table: %TABLE{ sort="on" tableborder="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="3" headerbg="#000099" headercolor="#FFFFCC" databg="#C8CB8F, #DBDDB5" headerrows="2" footerrows="1" }%

Plugin Installation Instructions

Note: You do not need to install anything on the browser to use this plugin. Below installation instructions are for the administrator who needs to install this plugin on the TWiki server.

• 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

Related Topics: TWikiPreferences, TWikiPlugins, StandardColors

-- JohnTalintyre? - 07 Oct 2001
-- PeterThoeny - 24 May 2003