Table Component and CustomLayout

Vaadin 6 / 7 / 8 Framework UI
1

Hello everybody.

Is it possible to use a table component and then to customize one column with a customLayout?
I need one column with a very special layout and I need the ordering feature of the table component too.
Is that somehow possible or can a table column contain only simple values?

If you have any example i would be deeply grateful.
thx
chris

2

You should have a look at
Table Generated Columns (Section 5.16.5.)
 which you can use to add vaadin Components as Table Columns (can cause Performance drops when used with large amounts of rows).

3

Hi Chris,

I think you should use addGeneratedColumn(Object, ColumnGenerator) method of the Table class. Something like this:

table.addGeneratedColumn(“columnId”, new ColumnGenerator() {
@Override
public Object generateCell(Table source, Object itemId, Object columnId) {
CutomLayout yourLayout = buildCostomLayout();
return yourLayout;
} });

Hope it’ll help you.
Alex

4

Hello Marius and Alex.
Thank you very much. I’ll try it out today and let you know about my results later.

5

Just to let you know, works perfectly. Thank you.