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Item13299: Confusing dialog in NatEdit for table creation

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Reported By: RaulFRodriguez
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Last Change By: MichaelDaum
I am translating to French and checking strings against context and actual use in 1.2

The string there https://github.com/foswiki/distro/blob/master/NatEditPlugin/templates/editdialog.natedit.tmpl#L36 is just "Headings", this appears in the dialog that can be seen when using NatEdit, when you click on the table icon

By default, the dialog box suggests 1

You can change this value

If you change it to 4, you get this

head head head head
head head head head
head head head head
head head head head
data data data data
data data data data
data data data data
data data data data

It actually does not make any sense to me that there could be several "Headings" lines in a table, one row can be made to span across several lines by just adding a %BR%, like this :

head multi-line
head
head head
data data data data
data data data data
data data data data
data data data data

Supposing that creating several heading rows can have a proper use, in any case, the dialog box is confusing, since it says "Headings" and I believe it should read "Heading rows" or "Heading lines".

Translating this is difficult because of all these problems.

Shouldn't this part of the dialog be turned to a checkbox ? i.e.: whether we want a Headings row or not?

-- RaulFRodriguez - 07 Mar 2015

I marked the Task as "Duplicate" since the wording problem was addressed as part of the Item13294 (Translation quality issues with maketext source strings) with the following checkin: distro:acd5a7dc4b97

-- RaulFRodriguez - 18 Mar 2015

Having multiple headings isn't that unusual:

  Group 1 Group2
Nr header 1 header 2 header 3 header 4 header 5 header 6
1 value 1 value 2 value 3 value 4 value 5 value 6
2 value 1 value 2 value 3 value 4 value 5 value 6
3 value 1 value 2 value 3 value 4 value 5 value 6
4 value 1 value 2 value 3 value 4 value 5 value 6

So I can't say there really is an issue in the dialog offering multiple header rows.

JQTablePlugin is making a mess of it but that's a different issue.

-- MichaelDaum - 18 Mar 2015
 

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Summary Confusing dialog in NatEdit for table creation
ReportedBy RaulFRodriguez
Codebase trunk
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Component NatEditPlugin
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Topic revision: r3 - 18 Mar 2015, MichaelDaum
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