Have a normal contrib:Table with 5 columns...
Add a custom renderer to the 4th column
(using a correctly named @Block)
In that block add a <span jwcid="@Insert" value="ognl:tableBreak"/>
Add a method
public String getTableBreak() {
return "</td></tr><tr><td colspan='4'>";
}
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to use the Contrib:Table to display a collection of search
> results, but I'm not sure it can provide me what I want...any
> suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Our GUI designer wants us to provide search results in a table format
> like this:
>
> ---------------------------------------------
> | 1 | 337-360 | lorem ipsum | blah |
> ---------------------------------------------
> | Document 337-360 is about blah and ..|
> ---------------------------------------------
> | 2 | 701-488 | foo mellon | fsaj |
> ---------------------------------------------
> | Document 701-488 summary/except inf..|
>
> etc.
>
> Each result to be displayed would be rendered across 2 rows of a table,
> the second row with a colspan of 4.
>
> I'm looking at Kent Tong's excellent book (page 257) and I see that you
> can break up the Table component into its composite pieces like this:
>
> <span jwcid="@TableView">
> <span jwcid="@TablePages"/>
> <table>
> <tr><span jwcid="@TableColumns"/></tr>
> <tr jwcid="@TableRows"><td jwcid="@TableValues"/></tr>
> </table>
> </span>
> </span>
>
>
> But I'm at a bit of a loss as to how to proceed. Should I extend my own
> TableRows object and have it spit out a separate row after it usually
> would?
>
> Any one out there have any code samples of something similar??
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Tom
>
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