Table Plugin

Gives extra control of table display:

• Allows sorting
• Changing table properties like border width, cell spacing and cell padding
• Changing background color for header cells
• Changing background color for data cells - colors can alternate
• Behaviour can be specified for a specific table using %TABLE{...}% or with global preferences

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

• Table border width. Default: 1
  • Set TABLEBORDER = 1

• Table cell padding. Default: 0
  • Set CELLPADDING = 0

• Table cell spacing. Default: 1
  • Set CELLSPACING = 1

• Vertical alignment of cells. Set to: top, middle, bottom or baseline; default: (empty)
  • Set VALIGN =

• Table header cell alignment. Set to: left, center, right or justify; default: (empty)
  • Set HEADERALIGN =

• Table data cell alignment. Set to: left, center, right or justify; default: (empty)
  • Set DATAALIGN =

• Background color of header cells ('*'s around text). Choose one of the StandardColors. Default: #99CCCC
  • Set HEADER_BG =

• Text color of header cells ('*'s around text). Default: not specified, e.g. determined by the browser
  • Set HEADER_COLOR =

• Background color of table rows, two alternate colors. Default: #FFFFCC, #FFFFFF
  • Set DATA_BG = #FFFFCC, #FFFFFF

• Text color of table rows, alternate colors. Default: not specified, e.g. determined by the browser
  • Set DATA_COLOR =

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

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

Per Table Settings

On line before the table use %TABLE{...}%:

Argument	Comment	Example
sort	Set table sorting on or off	sort="on"
initsort	Column to sort initially (1 to number of columns)	initsort="2"
initdirection	Initial sorting direction for initsort, set to up or down	initsort="down"
headerbg	Header cell background colour. Choose one of the StandardColors	headerbg="#99CCCC"
headercolor	Header cell text colour	headercolor="#0000CC"
databg	Data cell background colour, a comma separated list. Specify "none" for no colour, that is to use the colour/background of the page the table is on.	databg="#C8CB8F, #DBDDB5"
datacolor	Data cell text colour, a comma separated list	datacolor="#0000CC, #000000"
tableborder	Table border width (pixels)	tableborder="2"
cellpadding	Cell padding (pixels)	cellpadding="0"
cellspacing	Cell spacing (pixels)	cellspacing="3"
valign	Vertical alignment of cells, set to top, middle, bottom or baseline	valign="top"
headeralign	Header cell alignment, set to left, center, right or justify. Overrides individual cell settings	headeralign="left"
dataalign	Data cell alignment, set to left, center, right or justify. Overrides individual cell settings	dataalign="center"

All default to the global setting

Example

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

Num	Status	Action	Who	When	Progress
1	C	Chose new colours	John	1-Dec-02
2	X	Release	John	1-Apr-02
3		Get feedback	Anne	1-Feb-02
12	C	Spec error handling	Jack	1-Dec-02
5		Abc	John

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

Plugin Author:	JohnTalintyre?, PeterThoeny
Plugin Version:	09 Dec 2002
Change History:
09 Dec 2002:	PTh: Added headercolor and datacolor parameters
05 Jun 2002:	PTh: Added "none" value to databg parameter (suggested by TWiki:Main/TaitCyrus); fixed sorting by stripping HTML tags, removing links and making sort ignore case (suggested by TWiki:Main/ShawnBradford)
13 Mar 2002:	PTh: Added TWiki:Main/ShawnBradford 's initsort and initdirection
12 Mar 2002:	PTh: Added valign, headeralign and dataalign; fixed bug of swapped cellpadding/cellspacing; fixed warning of uninitialized value
05 Jan 2002:	PTh: Fixed sorting bug of cells with leading white space
06 Dec 2001:	PTh: Fixed date sorting bug 03 Dec 2001 PTh: Fixed sort="off" bug and more
29 Nov 2001:	PTh: Fixed Perl warnings
16 Nov 2001:	PTh: Added table border, cell spacing, cell padding, gif files
07 Oct 2001:	JT: Initial version
CPAN Dependencies:	none
Other Dependencies:	none
Perl Version:	5.0
Plugin Home:	http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/TablePlugin
Feedback:	http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/TablePluginDev

Related Topics: TWikiPreferences, TWikiPlugins, StandardColors

-- JohnTalintyre^? - 07 Oct 2001
-- PeterThoeny - 09 Dec 2002