Re: NOT a "How Do I". Query re conditionaling table columns

2015-02-06 Thread Lin Sims
The problem is that if you have a LOT of rows, it won't work. On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 10:15 AM, David Artman wrote: > While we're talking underlying theory/structure: I suspect many tables in > which one wants to conditionalize a column could be refactored so that the > columns were instead rows,

RE: NOT a "How Do I". Query re conditionaling table columns

2015-02-06 Thread David Artman
While we're talking underlying theory/structure: I suspect many tables in which one wants to conditionalize a column could be refactored so that the columns were instead rows, which are conditionable.   Thoughts? Yes, theoretically, if you didn't have spanned cells, you could hide/show the cells

Re: NOT a "How Do I". Query re conditionaling table columns

2015-02-02 Thread Robert Lauriston
I think it's basically for the same reason that you can't easily comment out a table column in HTML. Unlike a table row, a column is not a continuous set of elements. It's one set of elements for each row in the table. Implementing column-level conditions would thus be a much larger challenge than

Re: NOT a "How Do I". Query re conditionaling table columns

2015-02-02 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi Lin... I think it has to do with the ability to have spanned cells. But also I don't think that you can conditionalize a cell object. You can conditionalize the content within a cell, but you can't just "remove" (hide) a cell in a table. You'd have a hole. Yes, theoretically, if you didn'