Add new facets for rich:column

[amitev]

I propose that there should be some new facets added to the column tag
inside of a data table, in addition to the existing "header" and "footer". The
description is as follows:

<f:facet name="prebody"/> - Cause a row to be rendered inside the of the table, using cells, before any rows rendered automatically by the value="" attribute of the dataTable.

<f:facet name="postbody"/> - Cause a row to be rendered inside the of the table, using cells, after any rows rendered automatically by the
value="" attribute of the dataTable. An example use case is rendering a row in which the user might enter data to add to the table.

Ideally, there would be a way to render an arbitrary number of header, footer, prebody, and postbody cells, but the facet mechanism does not seem to allow for this at present.

This will help solving scenarios like on this picture:

http://maria0306.hit.bg/datatable.jpg

[sergeysmirnov]

I did not understand why you cannot use header and footer here. Could you explain the where is the problem?

[amitev]

in the column "header" i put the labels for the column. in the next row i need to put input fields for search criteria. In the other rows to iterate the results and in the footer to show summary. I need something like "prebody" where to put the input fields. Have you seen the picture?

[sergeysmirnov]

do not forget, you are able to have more than 1 row in the header in rich:dataTable
So, one row might be for header, the other one for input fields

[amitev]

Thx. I've missed that.