Item1726: CALC in EditTablePlugin causes errors during editing

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Priority: Normal
Current State: Closed
Released In: 1.0.6
Target Release: patch
Applies To: Extension
Component: EditTablePlugin
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Reported By: KennethLavrsen
Waiting For:
Last Change By: KennethLavrsen
Two old problems with CALC (SpreadSheetPlugin) in labels in EditTablePlugin are

  • The CALCs are long and goof up the table with enormous field widths.
  • During editing the CALC result causes an error (SpreadSheetPlugin is not robust against invalid or missing indata)

I have tried many things and the far best I have tried is to simply replace the entire CALC Macro by the static text CALC during editing.

These 4 letters take little space, and they make sense to the user that can guess that this is the CALC macro not being able to return anything during editing.

I will check in this now. Maybe someone can come up with a nice graphic or similar but until then this will do well.

We could also have returned a simple 0. But then - CALC does not always return a number. It can also be a string. So I prefer the CALC word or a small graphic.

The idea we once has with an non-editable text field was also tested and it was more confusing to the users I tested it on. They would try and alter the text and got confused instead. That proposal (my own) was not as good a solution as I first throught. I have used this CALC thing in a locally hacked ETP and it has been simple and successful.

-- KennethLavrsen - 15 Jun 2009

I have 3 additions:
  1. Make it work in headers and footers
  2. Make it work with multiple CALCs on 1 line
  3. Make it possible to style with CSS

-- ArthurClemens - 15 Jun 2009

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Summary CALC in EditTablePlugin causes errors during editing
ReportedBy KennethLavrsen
Codebase 1.0.5
SVN Range Foswiki-1.0.0, Thu, 08 Jan 2009, build 1878
AppliesTo Extension
Component EditTablePlugin
Priority Normal
CurrentState Closed
WaitingFor
Checkins distro:a3b1344464cc distro:b297f06766a6 distro:8d088e8fb930
TargetRelease patch
ReleasedIn 1.0.6
Topic revision: r10 - 22 Jun 2009, KennethLavrsen
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