What is subTable ???

krasig Jun 29, 2007 4:20 AM

I'm new in richfaces and can't find enough info about components (only UserGuide).
So i have table (rich of course) somtong like:

table{
aol1, co2l
)

And in col2 on every row must put another table and my idea was to put
another <rich:dataTable>, but seen there is a component <rich:subTable>

So. what is difference between?

Thanks.

1. Re: What is subTable ???

sergeysmirnov Jun 29, 2007 12:15 PM (in response to krasig)

Combination of rich:dataTable and rich:subTable allows to show "master-details" relationship.

For example, the table from the richfaces-demo (http://livedemo.exadel.com/richfaces-demo/richfaces/dataTable.jsf) integrate information about the cities that employee visited (master table) and the details of expenses for each city (master table).

From the table layout perspective, subTable instead of dataTable has no own tag, but incorporated into the parent dataTable. It means that both dataTable and subTable have common aligned columns.

The cool feature of rich:dataTable is ability to join columns and rows (colspan, rowspan) if needs.

See also the incomplete yet article about rich:dataTable:
http://labs.jboss.com/wiki/RichFacesArticleDataTable
http://labs.jboss.com/wiki/RichFacesArticleDataTableSkinability
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