Introduction

Provides a field with a datagrid (table), where each row is a sub form.

It is a z3c.form implementation of the Products.DataGridField .

This product was developed for use with Plone and Dexterity.

Installation

Add collective.z3cform.datagridfield to your buildout eggs:

[buildout]
...
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 collective.z3cform.datagridfield.datagridfield import DataGridFieldFactory
from collective.z3cform.datagridfield.row import DictRow
from plone.autoform.directives import widget
from plone.autoform.form import AutoExtensibleForm
from z3c.form import form
from zope import interface
from zope import schema


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,
        ),
    )

    widget(table=DataGridFieldFactory)


class EditForm(AutoExtensibleForm, form.EditForm):
    label=u"Demo Usage of DataGridField"
    schema = IFormSchema

And configured via zcml:

<browser:page
    name="editform--example"
    class=".editform.EditForm"
    for="*"
    permission="zope2.View"
    />

Also it can be used from a supermodel XML:

<field name="table" type="zope.schema.List">
  <description/>
  <title>Table</title>
  <value_type type="collective.z3cform.datagridfield.DictRow">
    <schema>your.package.interfaces.ITableRowSchema</schema>
  </value_type>
  <form:widget type="collective.z3cform.datagridfield.datagridfield.DataGridFieldFactory"/>
</field>

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

Row editor handles

Widget parameters can be passed via widget hints. Extended schema example from above:

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

    widget(
        "table",
        DataGridFieldFactory,
        allow_insert=False,
        allow_delete=False,
        allow_reorder=False,
        auto_append=False,
        display_table_css_class="table table-striped",
        input_table_css_class="table table-sm",
    )

Manipulating the Sub-form

The DictRow schema can also be extended via widget hints. Extended schema examples from above:

from z3c.form.browser.checkbox import CheckBoxFieldWidget


class ITableRowSchema(interface.Interface):

    two = schema.TextLine(title=u"Level 2")

    address_type = schema.Choice(
        title="Address Type",
        required=True,
        values=["Work", "Home"],
    )
    # show checkboxes instead of selectbox
    widget(address_type=CheckBoxFieldWidget)


class IFormSchema(interface.Interface):

    table = schema.List(
        title=u"Nested selection tree test",
        value_type=DictRow(
            title=u"tablerow",
            schema=ITableRowSchema
        )
    )
    widget(table=DataGridFieldFactory)

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

JavaScript events

collective.z3cform.datagridfield fires jQuery events, so that you can hook them in your own Javascript for DataGridField behavior customization.

The following events are currently fired against table.datagridwidget-table-view

• beforeaddrow [datagridfield, newRow]
• afteraddrow [datagridfield, newRow]
• beforeaddrowauto [datagridfield, newRow]
• afteraddrowauto [datagridfield, newRow]
• aftermoverow [datagridfield]
• afterdatagridfieldinit - All DGFs on the page have been initialized

Example usage:

var handleDGFInsert = function(event, dgf, row) {
    row = $(row);
    console.log("Got new row:");
    console.log(row);
};

// Bind all DGF handlers on the page
$(document).on('beforeaddrow beforeaddrowauto', '.datagridwidget-table-view', handleDGFInsert);

Demo

More examples are in the demo subfolder of this package.

Versions

• Version 3.x is Plone 6+ only (z3c.form >= 4)
• Versions 1.4.x and 2.x are for Plone 5.x,
• Versions 1.3.x is for Plone 4.3
• For Python 3.7 at least PyYAML 4.2b1

Requirements

• z3c.forms
• A browser with javascript support
• jquery 1.4.3 or later