Feedback on ChecklistTablePlugin

-- DanielRohde - 28 Aug 2007

Ok, some features of the ChecklistTablePlugin are well known from the EditTablePlugin but a checklist table has some requirements which are not satisfied by EditTablePlugin. I've first tried to wrap EditTablePlugin but I failed. Some annoying problems of EditTablePlugin are not present in ChecklistTablePlugin, e.g. you can use TWikiVariables within format attribute or table cells without any <nop> tags...

I have planned to add some features:

• JavaScript? based insert/edit
• integrated table sort that allows you to edit a sorted table
• own icons (to much colors yet)
• ... feature requests are welcome

-- DanielRohde - 28 Aug 2007

@all: you should use the latest version from SVN because the initial release has a major bug (if you use pre/verbatim tags a table change will throw away all pre/verbatim content/tags) ...

-- DanielRohde - 28 Aug 2007

Thank you Daniel for contributing yet another plugin!

Small feedback on plugin topic:

• When referring to dependent plugins it is better to write just the plugin name, not %TWIKIWEB%.CheckListPlugin. That way links work on twiki.org and when installed on a target system. I updated the plugin topic accordingly.
• Thanks for running and documenting the benchmarks!
• Please help tagging the plugin topic.

-- PeterThoeny - 28 Aug 2007

Guess this will work with EditRowPlugin too, right?

-- FranzJosefGigler - 29 Aug 2007

No, ChecklistTablePlugin works like EditRowPlugin. The table row editor is integrated in ChecklistTablePlugin.

-- DanielRohde - 29 Aug 2007

Hi Daniel.. I'm drooling & can't wait to install and test. I'll be back shortly with updates. Thanks!

-- KeithHelfrich - 30 Aug 2007

Works as described. I'm curious: wouldn't it make sense providing an EditTableContrib? from which all the different table editors could benefit?

-- FranzJosefGigler - 30 Aug 2007

Sorry, guys. I haven't installed & played with the ChecklistTablePlugin yet. But I would agree with the sensibility of a single, common EditTableContrib? .

Also Daniel, I'm wondering why this wasn't included in the original ChecklistPlugin ? Why add yet another plugin ?

-- KeithHelfrich - 30 Aug 2007

Small typo: In installation Instructions, change "TWiki:Main.ChecklistPlugin" to "TWiki:Plugins.ChecklistPlugin".

-- PeterThoeny - 31 Aug 2007

Hi Keith, the ChecklistTablePlugin implements a complete table (row) editor with about 750 lines of code and a new data type. This is the reason why I've added a new plugin.

Sure, a EditTableContrib? could help to reduce code and bugs. Do anyone have enough time to implement a EditTableContrib? ?

-- DanielRohde - 03 Sep 2007