Joining cells in grid footer?

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In Vaadin 8 we joined all the leading footer cells without any sums, and displayed info about number of rows, selection etc:

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In Vaadin20+, if I try this, I get:

Cells cannot be joined on the top-most footer row. This row is used as the default row for setting column footers, so each cell in it should have maximum one related column.

For the example above it is sort of understandable, but 99% of our grids have no column footers at all, and still we can’t merge them.

Any way around this limitation?

For grids without column footers, I can add two footers, and hide the first with css, but that seems awful, and it still doesn’t help me with the cases where we do have column footers.

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TLDR: no

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Thanks.

Since that issue is from 2018 and nothing is resolved I will not wait for Vaadin.
It is not that hard to add a Span after the Grid. It might even be preferable in most cases.

The only issue is for the few lists where we use the footer and I will have both.
Now there is one line less for the data.

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You might find the GridHelpers add-on useful for your case. It includes a feature called ToolbarFooter that could help you achieve what you’re looking for.

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Looks like that is the “create two footers and hide the first with css” workaround.