Hi Walden,
I originally tried to go down that road, unfortunately the plug-in we are
using 'angular-datatables' does not handle transclusion at all.  I spent a
few days trying to get it to work, but there is a general issue using
angular transclusion inside of a html <table> tag.
Thanks,
- Dave

On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 4:25 PM, Walden Raines <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am looking to prototype the use the new pfTable directive in our project
> (katello) and I had a couple of concerns about the directive.
>
> To me it seems like instead of passing in a complex configuration object
> that we should just use transclusion to get the desired results.  So
> instead of this:
>
> $scope.columns = [
>   { header: "Name", itemField: "name" },
>   { header: "Age", itemField: "age"},
>   { header: "Address", itemField: "address" },
>   { header: "BirthMonth", itemField: "birthMonth"}
> ];
>
> $scope.toolbarActionsConfig = {
> ...
> };
>
> // many more configuration objects, edited for brevity
>
>
> <pf-table-view config="tableConfig"
>                dt-options="dtOptions"
>                columns="columns"
>                items="items"
>                action-buttons="tableActionButtons"
>                menu-actions="tableMenuActions">
> </pf-table-view>
>
>
> We'd have something like this:
>
> <pf-table-view config="tableConfig" items="items">
>   <pf-table-view-headers>
>     <thead>
>       <tr>
>         <th>Name</th>
>         <th>Age</th>
>         <th>Address</th>
>         <th>Birth Month</th>
>       </tr>
>     </thead>
>
>     <pf-menu-actions>
>       ...
>     </pf-menu-actions>
>   </pf-table-view-headers>
>
>   <pf-table-view-rows>
>     <tbody>
>       <tr ng-repeat="row in items">
>         <td>{{row.name | customFilter}}</td>
>         <td some-custom-directive>{{row.age}}</td>
>         <td some-other-custom-directive>{{row.address}}</td>
>         <td>{{row.birthMonth | date:'medium'}}</td>
>
>         <pf-table-actions>
>           <button type="button" ng-click="doSomething()">Do it!</button>
>         </pf-table-actions>
>       </tr>
>     </tbody>
>   </pf-table-view-rows>
> </pf-table-view>
>
>
> This allows for more flexibility in using custom directives, filters, etc. in 
> the table rows themselves. How would one add links to the item names in the 
> current version?  What about a custom filter? What about custom directives?
>
> Moreover I dislike that the entire configuration object is declared in the 
> controller, including items that should be in the template instead of the 
> controller (such as the header names, menu item names, and action names).  To 
> me this is in direct contrast to the separation of concerns that angular is 
> supposed to help achieve.
>
> Here is a gist in case the formatting above gets broken [1].
>
> What are your thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
> Walden
>
> [1] https://gist.github.com/waldenraines/6e293ee84e7ef1686cdc69218404865c
>
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