Hi Mario,
can you give us a more concrete example? I don't understand all this
Datax/SubxHeaderxInformation stuff..
regards,
Martin
On 1/24/08, Mario Ivankovits <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> One thing in JSF which constantly worries me is, that it is not easily
> possible to create a more complicated table layout with
> group/group/detail style.
>
> What I mean is somthing like this:
>
> Name Column1 Column2
> Data1HeaderInformation1
> Sub1HeaderInformation1
> Name1 10 20
> Sub1HeaderInformation2
> Name2 20 30
> Data2HeaderInformation1
> Sub2HeaderInformation1
> Name3 40 50
> Name5 60 70
>
> This reflects a list in a list in a list.
>
> Currently, with JSF there is no chance to nest tables in such a way
> without rendering completely unrelated tables. The problem is, that the
> sub tables then have their own column width and it is hard to make them
> look as just one table.
>
> I thought about a new attribute on the dataTable (embedded="true") which
> avoids rendering the <table></table> attributes so that the rendered
> table nicely nest into the parent table.
> For sure, the user has to take care that the numer of columns are the
> same among all tables, probably by using stuff like "t:column colspan=".
>
> Secondly, to make this fully usable, we need another way to define the
> header of a table as the "master" table has to render a very special
> header where one would like to mix in the header of the detail row.
> For this, I thought we could use a facet directly on the datatable. In
> the end, it might look like the following:
>
> <t:datable var="group1" value="#{bean.data}">
> <f:facet name="columnHeader1">
> <t:column colspan="2">
> <t:outputText value="header" />
> </t:column>
> </f:facet>
> <f:facet name="columnHeader2">
> <t:column>
> <t:outputText value="detailA" />
> </t:column>
> </f:facet>
> <f:facet name="columnHeader3">
> <t:column>
> <t:outputText value="detailB" />
> </t:column>
> </f:facet>
> ...
> <t:column colspan="10">
> <t:outputText value="#{group1.headerValue}" />
> </t:column>
> </t:datable var="group2" value="#{group1.groupData}" embedded="true">
> <t:column colspan="2">
> <t:outputText value="#{group2.headerValue2}" />
> </t:column>
> <t:column colspan="8">
> <t:outputText value="#{group2.headerValue2}" />
> </t:column>
> </t:datable var="detail" value="#{group2.detailData}"
> embedded="true">
> <t:column>
> <t:outputText value="#{detail.value1}" />
> </t:column>
> ....
> <t:column>
> <t:outputText value="#{detail.value10}" />
> </t:column>
> </t:datable>
> </t:datable>
> </t:datable>
>
> I know, with facelets I can achive the same using plain html tags and
> dataLists, but I STRONGLY prefer NOT to use such an approach, I'd like
> to use ONLY components.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Ciao,
> Mario
>
>
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