I liked this treegrid library, but I think it is visually poluted, too much complicated, I always need a simple dynamic html tables (just like SQLTABLE) but including pagination, just one level of nested detail, edit in-line and search. In adition with DAL virtual fields for live calculations/transformations.
Take web2py appadmin as example, imagine a system with more than 500 users registered (natalanimal.com.br has 1001+ users registered, and ~40 donations by day). it is not easy to manage this data only with default appadmin tables, and I found so complicated to customize jqGrid for doing that. else, jQGrid, Ext js, YUI grid and others are so complicated for doing simple things like that. I also have a 'Simple Agile Tool' which I use to manage scrum projects, I never loads more than 100 records in a single table ( because dashboards are filtered per sprint/project/goal. In this case, if an agile project has more than 100 records per sprint this is not being agile. Was because of this, that I started developing the powerTable plugin to wrap datatables library together with web2py features. web2py and datatables is a perfect match. web2py has the best data access layer for working with this library. I am working on dict, Json, XMl parser to work server side, I am sure it will be a good option for grids in web2py applications. somebody knows who created jQgrid and webgrid plugin? -- Bruno Rocha http://about.me/rochacbruno/bio
