EditInTablePlugin

Allows you to edit tables as a grid of text edits, without requiring modification of existing TWiki tables.

It isn't as featured as EditTablePlugin, but it's not designed to highly structure table input. It is designed to make editing tables easier. The Raw TWiki Content is preserved in the text edit fields.

It doesn't have add row, delete row, col for example, but that's not it's intent.

Click to try it now (only works if plugin is installed)

Examples

This is what the above example table looks like using the plugin (clicking the edit tables link):

To use it add a button or a link to your skin (or to the topic) that runs the view script with ?edittable=1 at the end

Here is a example you can cut and paste

<a href="%SCRIPTURLPATH%/view%SCRIPTSUFFIX%/%WEB%/%TOPIC%?edittable=1">Edit Tables</a>

Plugin Settings

Plugin settings are stored as preferences variables. To reference a plugin setting write %<plugin>_<setting>%, i.e. %INTERWIKIPLUGIN_SHORTDESCRIPTION%

• One line description, is shown in the TextFormattingRules topic:
  • Set SHORTDESCRIPTION = Allows you to edit tables as a grid of text edits, without requiring modification of existing TWiki tables

• Debug plugin: (See output in data/debug.txt)
  • Set DEBUG = 0

• My own setting:
  • Set HOWTO = got it!

Plugin Installation Instructions

Note: You do not need to install anything on the browser to use this plugin. The following instructions are for the administrator who installs the plugin on the server where TWiki is running.

• Download the ZIP file from the Plugin web (see below)
• Unzip EditInTablePlugin.zip in your twiki installation directory. Content:

  File:	Description:
  data/TWiki/EditInTablePlugin.txt	Plugin topic
  data/TWiki/EditInTablePlugin.txt,v	Plugin topic repository
  lib/TWiki/Plugins/EditInTablePlugin.pm	Plugin Perl module

• Test if the installation was successful:
  • enter samples here

Plugin Info

Plugin Author:	TWiki:Main/RudiBierach
Plugin Version:	13 Feb 2004 (V1.010)
Change History:
13 Feb 2004 (V1.010):	Initial version
15 Feb 2004 (V1.020):	Fixed blank cells with all cells to the right of the blank cell not being saved
CPAN Dependencies:	none
Other Dependencies:	none
Perl Version:	5.005
TWiki:Plugins/Benchmark:	GoodStyle nn%, FormattedSearch nn%, EditInTablePlugin nn%
Plugin Home:	http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/EditInTablePlugin
Feedback:	http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/EditInTablePluginDev

Related Topics: TWikiPreferences, TWikiPlugins

-- TWiki:Main/RudiBierach - 13 Feb 2004

• EditInTablePlugin.zip: initial release