Comments on: New jQuery Plugin - tableFilter() (Beta 1)

By: daemach

daemach — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 20:36:38 +0000

Take a look here for some basic tips: http://ideamill.synaptrixgroup.com/?page_id=16

Make sure you’re using the version of jquery that I included with the zip. Until 1.1.3 is released, it’s the only version that will work properly with this plugin.

By: Sharath

Sharath — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 22:00:28 +0000

It might help if you guys could let me know how I make this work with my table. I’ve got an asp page. I’ve tried other tablefilters but found yours very appealing. For some reason not able to make it work with my table. What are the things I need to change to make it work with my table?

By: daemach

daemach — Wed, 30 May 2007 05:43:32 +0000

Well it’s stable right now as long as you’re using a pretty simple table. As soon as I can get to it is the real answer. This is a side project for me unfortunately, so I can’t devote as much time to it as I would like.

By: jebe

jebe — Mon, 28 May 2007 13:13:49 +0000

When the first stable version will be published?

By: Oscar

Oscar — Thu, 24 May 2007 11:06:22 +0000

The code is wonderful.

Could be nice to add a function to print friendly the content of the table

Cheers,
Oscar

By: daemach

daemach — Wed, 16 May 2007 15:56:49 +0000

The code is pretty complex, though some of that is due to trial-and-error testing. I don’t have a programming background and I’m new to oop, so the code isn’t very elegant. It has improved somewhat in the latest version.

Parsing/sorting is handled using dataTypes. You could create another dataType definition which allows you to handle the source any way you need to.

By: xavier

xavier — Wed, 16 May 2007 15:33:46 +0000

Hi,

Ok, got if for the drop-down, and good idea for the override.

I’m not understanding your code, but would it be possible to add some custom code between the “get the value from the cell” and “feed it to the sort machine” ?

Then sorting by number, date, source of the image… could just be about putting the right filter that converts between DD-MM-YYYY to YYYYMMDD for instance.

That’s one of the benefits of not seeing the code: everything looks so simple. The downside, of course, is that you look stupid with meaningless suggestions

X+

By: daemach

daemach — Tue, 15 May 2007 15:28:15 +0000

Unfortunately, I have to do some magic to be able to sort by multiple columns, so I’m forced to sort everything alphabetically - even numbers and dates. I convert the data to a special format for sorting during the parsing stage.

By default, if a column has 6 unique values or less you get a drop-down, otherwise you get a text field. I’ve increased that to 10 unique values in the latest version, but you will be able to override that if you wish.

I’m glad you like it - more coming soon.

By: xavier

xavier — Tue, 15 May 2007 11:46:52 +0000

Hi,

Some columns might contains “special” types of datas, that you don’t sort by alphabetical order (eg MM-DD-YYYY). Would it be possible to set a class in the header to define how to sort it ?

Otherwise, I love the filter solution, very elegant ! For the column that provide a fixed set of options (eg the country one), would it be possible to have a select field instead of the free form one ?

Brilliant !

X+

By: daemach

daemach — Thu, 10 May 2007 15:48:11 +0000

Thanks for the comments. Please note that tableFilter is just a “wrapper” for your table. You can easily use jQuery to add the functionality you’re looking for like this:

$(’#yourTable’).tableFilter().children(”tr”).bind(”click”,function(){ //this.id or $(this).attr(”id”) will give you the ID of the row. this.cells[n] or $(this).children(”td”) gives you all the cells in this row});