How to use data table to show a dynamic number of rows withi

[vantwout]

Hi,

I am trying to figure out how to achieve the following table layout using rich faces data table tags:

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Name | Phone | Street Address | State | Actions |
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Adrian | 383838 | 34 Blah St | VIC | |
| | | 22 Hah Rd | NSW | |
|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| John | 383838 | 345 Blah St | VIC | <modify |
| | | 21 Hah Rd | NSW | |
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

The data model in the back end is essentially:

-----------
| Person |
-----------
|
| *
-------------
| Address |
-------------

Essentially, each main row is a person record, and within each main row there are sub-rows that show the different addresses. I noticed that there is a rowspan attribute against a column, but since the row span would be fixed for all records, it doesn't seem to support a dynamic number of address rows per person.
Does anyone have any ideas on how I could use the rich faces table components to achieve this?

Thanks for your help,

Adrian

[nbelaevski]

Hi Adrian,

You can use rich:subtable - check livedemo for more info.

[vantwout]

Hi,

I have been looking at the livedemo for an example of a subtable - however the usage of a subtable in that example is to have a parent row and then several child rows.
Maybe my example wasn't clear due to the way the html ended up displaying. This is what I was after. If there is something on the livedemo that I haven't found that gives an example of this, could you please provide the URL?

Thanks for your help
Adrian


----------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Name | Phone | Street Address | State | Actions |
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Adrian | 383838 | 34 Blah St | VIC | <modify button> |
| | --------------------------| |
| | | 22 Hah Rd | NSW | |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| John | 383838 | 345 Blah St | VIC | <modify button> |
| | |-------------------------| |
| | | 21 Hah Rd | NSW | |
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

[vantwout]

Hi,

Just wondering if anyone knows how to achieve the below using the richfaces table/subtable?

Thanks
Adrian

"vantwout" wrote:
Hi,

I have been looking at the livedemo for an example of a subtable - however the usage of a subtable in that example is to have a parent row and then several child rows.
Maybe my example wasn't clear due to the way the html ended up displaying. This is what I was after. If there is something on the livedemo that I haven't found that gives an example of this, could you please provide the URL?

Thanks for your help
Adrian

<pre>
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Name | Phone | Street Address | State | Actions |
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Adrian | 383838 | 34 Blah St | VIC | <modify button> |
| | --------------------------| |
| | | 22 Hah Rd | NSW | |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| John | 383838 | 345 Blah St | VIC | <modify button> |
| | |-------------------------| |
| | | 21 Hah Rd | NSW | |
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

</pre>

[nbelaevski]

Adrian,

Use "rowspan" attribute of rich:column.

[jbalunas]

Do you have a hard requirement on having the internals be a table?

You could just try a standard panel grid inside of the column definition. Something like below :

<rich:column>
 <h:panelGrid columns="2" ...>
 <a4j:repeat ...>
 --- Iterate over your data components for the row here. This will result in 2 columns of what ever data you care to put here.
 </a4j:repeat>
 </h:panelGrid>
</rich:column>

Obviously this is pseudo-code - you'll have to add your own details :-)