Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
Michael Gordon wrote:
Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
Best bet is the "use Excel, pre-sort, export as HTML" recommendation.
This is the simplest way.
Beauregard,
Using Microsoft Excel to export as HTML purely sucks. Microsoft uses
proprietary coding that works well with IE, but falls flat on its face
for standards compliant web browsers.
Still, it will probably suffice.
What would I do? Create the table manually in a text editor complete with
the column and row HTML (<tr><td> etc), and sort as I go by placing the
info in the proper order as created. Save it. Copy and paste into
Composer's source mode. When a change occurs, manually edit the text file,
add the new record in the proper order in the file, save, and re-copy and
paste into the web page.
If this "table" is something huge, and if there are frequent changes, then
I'd use a script and a database.
Beauregard,
The first task is to create the spreadsheet in Excel, create as many
columns as needed for the data types. Include column headers as a
reference.
Next, with Composer, create a table with two rows, and as many columns
as used in Excel.
The first row is for the column headers, the second row will contain the
data from Excel.
From column 1 in Excel copy the data in all cells from that column.
In Composer, for column 1 and row 2 paste the copied content. The
length of the column will increase ad the data fills the cell.
The advantage with Excel is we can sort the entire contents of the
worksheet by the data in column 1, and as we copy and paste into
Composer the data in each column will follow the sort made in Excel.
I agree, there are better and faster way to accomplish the task, I have
proposed a work around for non-programmers to use who are familiar with
Excel. No matter what methods we use we must maintain the web standards
used by the international community.
Michael G
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