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Spreadsheet component + data validity

Sebastiaan Blommers
7 years ago Jul 30, 2015 9:38pm

Hi there,

XSLX and Apache POI support checking validity of input (for example A2=ABS(ROUND(A2,2)) to check if positive number and 2 decimals rounding). Is this going to be implemented into the spreadsheets component?

Thanks!
Sebastiaan

Guillermo Alvarez
7 years ago Jul 31, 2015 12:37pm

Hi Sebastiaan,

I'm afraid DataValidation constraints aren't considered right now. 

You can create a new enhancement request in https://dev.vaadin.com
 

Sebastiaan Blommers
7 years ago Jul 31, 2015 12:40pm

I understand why, when you copy a cell on a cell with data validation in Excel or LibreOffice the data validation get's lost on that cell. Setting a custom SpreadsheetComponentFactory might be the best solution for now.

Thank you for looking into it.

Greg Woolsey
6 years ago Feb 14, 2017 5:01pm

I just committed support for evaluating data validation constraints to POI trunk yesterday.  See class org.apache.poi.ss.formula.DataValidationEvaluator.  That has methods that could be used with a custom SpreadsheetComponentFactory to help you write your own validating input fields, including drop-downs.