collective.z3cform.datagridfield 0.11

Version of DataGridField for use with Dexterity / z3c.form

Introduction

Licence: GNU General Public License

This module provides a z3c.form version of the Products.DataGridField. This product was developed for use with Plone4 and Dexterity.

Requirements

• Plone 4

• z3c.forms

• A browser with javascript support

• jquery 1.4.3 or later

Installation

Add collective.z3cform.datagridfield to your buildout eggs.:

eggs=\
    ...
    collective.z3cform.datagridfield

Example usage

This piece of code demonstrates a schema which has a table within it. The layout of the table is defined by a second schema.:

from zope import schema
from zope import interface
from plone.directives import form

from collective.z3cform.datagridfield import DataGridFieldFactory, DictRow

class ITableRowSchema(interface.Interface):
    one = schema.TextLine(title=u"One")
    two = schema.TextLine(title=u"Two")
    three = schema.TextLine(title=u"Three")

class IFormSchema(interface.Interface):
    four = schema.TextLine(title=u"Four")
    table = schema.List(title=u"Table"
        value_type=DictRow(title=u"tablerow", schema=ITableRowSchema))

class EditForm(form.EditForm):
    extends(form.EditForm)

    grok.context(IFormSchema)
    grok.require('zope2.View')
    fields = field.Fields(IFormSchema)
    label=u"Demo Usage of DataGridField"

    fields['table'].widgetFactory = DataGridFieldFactory

Storage

The data can be stored as either a list of dicts or a list of objects. If the data is a list of dicts, the value_type is DictRow. Otherwise, the value_type is ‘schema.Object’.

If you are providing an Object content type (as opposed to dicts) you must provide your own conversion class. The default conversion class returns a list of dicts, not of your object class. See the demos.

Configuration

The widget can be customised via the updateWidgets method.

def updateWidgets(self):

super(EditForm, self).updateWidgets() self.widgets[‘table’].allow_insert = False # Enable/Disable the insert button on the right self.widgets[‘table’].allow_delete = False # Enable/Disable the delete button on the right self.widgets[‘table’].auto_append = False # Enable/Disable the auto-append feature self.widgets[‘table’].allow_reorder = False # Enable/Disable the re-order rows feature

The widget contains an attribute ‘columns’ which is manipulated to hide column titles.

Manipulating the Sub-form

The DataGridField makes use of a subform to build each line. The main DataGridField contains a DataGridFieldObject for each line in the table. The DataGridFieldObject in turn creates the DataGridFieldObjectSubForm to store the fields.

There are two callbacks to your main form:

datagridInitialise(subform, widget)

• This is called when the subform fields have been initialised, but before the widgets have been created. Field based configuration could occur here.

datagridUpdateWidgets(subform, widgets, widget)

• This is called when the subform widgets have been created. At this point, you can configure the widgets, e.g. specify the size of a widget.

Working with plone.app.registry

To use the field with plone.app.registry, you’ll have to use a version of the field that has PersistentField as it’s base class:

from collective.z3cform.datagridfield.registry import DictRow

Notes

I have attempted to keep the markup close to Products.DataGridField, so that the styling approach is the same.

TODO

• Testing

• The mechanism to hide/omit columns is cumbersome. This needs to be revisited.

• Better styling of table in read-only mode. Merge the display and input versions of the layout.

• kss validation - highlight the incorrect row, rather than the entire widget. Possibly show the error message in the field cell.

• hidden mode

Demo

Examples are in the package collective.z3cform.datagridfield_demo.

References

• http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Products.DataGridField

• http://pypi.python.org/pypi/collective.z3cform.datagridfield_demo

Changelog

0.11 (2012-05-16)

• be able to use with plone.app.registry [vangheem]

0.10 (2012-02-12)

• Fix bug with moving the last row up. [m-martinez]

0.9 (2011-10-27)

• Clone events when adding new row - fixes bug where browse button of plone.formwidget.contenttree did nothing for new rows [anthonygerrard]

• Reindex more indexed attributes of cloned row [anthonygerrard]

0.8 (2011-09-24)

• Avoid using the “row” CSS class. [davisagli]

• Fixes to work with jQuery 1.3.x (use .remove() instead of .detach(), fetch data attributes a different way, and avoid live binding the change event). [davisagli]

• Don’t error out when getting a FormatterValidationError, pass it on to z3c.form instead. [claytron]

• Give manipulator images a relative src rather than absolute. This previously meant the widget didn’t work on sites without Plone/Zope at the root of the domain. [davidjb]

• During auto-insert, add our new row into the document first, before reindexing it and changing its elements’ IDs. This allows Javascript that depends on these IDs (such as plone.formwidget.autocomplete) to pick up the correct fields. [davidjb]

• Tidying up and reducing complexity of auto-insert functionality [davidjb]

• Removing unnecessary auto-insert bind and unbind as this is already covered by jQuery’s live() function against the auto-append class. Adding/removing this class against rows automatically does this. [davidjb]

• Resolved issue with auto-insert functionality not working by removing table-specific check in Javascript. [davidjb]

0.7 (2011-07-01)

• Changed markup/javascript to prevent duplicate HTML id attributes. Changed Javascript to allow for datagrid page templates that don’t use tables. [dextermilo]

• Improve spacing in CSS. [davisagli]

• Revert my fix to ensure that blank rows are added, because it duplicated a fix in z3c.form resulting in extra rows. [davisagli]

0.6 (2011-05-17)

• Search for datagridInitialise and datagridUpdateWidgets on the parent form, also when in a fieldset. [maurits]

• Register templates on plone.app.z3cform.interfaces.IPloneFormLayer to take precedence over that packages list widget templates. [elro]

• Make sure that updateWidgets is called to add blank rows even if the widget has no value. [davisagli]

• When extracting a row value fails due to a validation error, convert widget values to field values so the value can be successfully applied to the grid widget. [davisagli]

• Register a plone.supermodel handler for the DictRow so it can be used in supermodel models. [davisagli]

• Depend on collective.z3cform.datagridfield_demo as a test extra; use the browser view from this package in the tests. [maurits]

• _validate still used when import/exporting, fix up code so it works [lentinj]

• Add a DictRow serializer for transmogrify.dexterity [lentinj]

• Only use width:100% on input cells that are the only element in the cell [lentinj]

• Reorder row indices backwards when adding rows. This means that adjacent rows don’t share the same index temporarily, for example:- - Row 1 and 2 contain input:radio based widgets - Row 0 added, row renumbering starts - Row 1 widgets renamed 2 - Both sets of input:radio share the same name, one deselected - Row 2 widgets renamed 3 - … [lentinj]

• Use jQuery to clone rows, and clone the jQuery events on the rows. [lentinj]

• Implemented reorder functionality

0.5 (2011-02-08)

• Put in the DictRow class (tks Martin Aspeli)

• Moved the demo code out to a separate package collective.z3cform.datagridfield_demo (tks Laurence Rowe).

• Removed superfluous lines from setup.py (tks Laurence Rowe).

• Removed unnessary dependency on dexterity (tks Laurence Rowe).

• Removed unnessary dependency on grok (tks Laurence Rowe).

0.4 (2011-02-06)

• Renamed the demo pages. The starting point is now @@demo-collective.z3cform.datagrid .

• The widget can now be configured via the updateWidgets method. It is no longer necessary to create a custom factory.

• The columns can now be omitted.

• Provide a set of demo views for Object access.

0.3 (2011-02-04)

• The auto-append functionality did not bind correctly for popup forms. I switched to using jQuery.live() instead of binding at document load time.

• Added a menu to the demo pages

• Added a display only form option.

• Fixed the restructured text of the main README.txt so that it will show more friendly in PyPI.