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Mon, 01 September 2014 11:18

Eclipse User

Hi guys,

I'm currently checking if NatTable would be suitable for one of my projects. But I want the "numbers" on top and the headers on the left. In excel this is called transpose (I think).

I checked through all of the examples and non of them implements that. Also DefaultRowHeaderDataProvider only accepts a IDataProvider and not the possibility to add the "propertyStrings". Can I somehow switch the rows and columns using a layer or is this not possible?

Thanks in advance!

-Martin

Re: Flip row and column [message #1414968 is a reply to message #1414905]

Mon, 01 September 2014 14:53

Eclipse User

We do not have the functionality to automatically invert the axis. But if it is only about showing numbers in the column header and strings in the row header, you could simply implement a custom IDataProvider

Re: Flip row and column [message #1415241 is a reply to message #1414968]

Tue, 02 September 2014 07:50

Eclipse User

Allright I got it sort of working using my own RowHeaderDataProvider and a custom GridLayer. But do I see it correct that I would need to rewrite most of the functionality like ListDataProvider, filters, sorting etc. to really get a "horizontal" table instead of a "vertical" table? Or do you have any tips to achieve this pretty easy?

[Updated on: Tue, 02 September 2014 08:00] by Moderator

Re: Flip row and column [message #1415259 is a reply to message #1415241]

Tue, 02 September 2014 08:32

Eclipse User

Quote:

Or do you have any tips to achieve this pretty easy?

Unfortunately not. As I said before, we started working on such an inverted table (or transposed), but failed with the several reasons. This is one of the reasons why we started thinking about a new architecture that is more related to axis than columns and rows. But the community seems to prioritize other things higher, so the completely new architecture is moved in favor of smaller improvements to achieve the new architecture step by step.

Sorry, I got off course. No there is no pretty easy solution and I even think a complete transposed matrix with all possible functionalities is quite hard to implement.

Re: Flip row and column [message #1751146 is a reply to message #1415259]

Wed, 04 January 2017 18:03

Eclipse User

Dear Dirk, dear forum,

Is the described status still state of the art? Or is there now a way to transpose tables?

Thanks!
Stephan

Re: Flip row and column [message #1751153 is a reply to message #1751146]

Wed, 04 January 2017 23:55

Eclipse User

Not sure if it is "state of the art", but there were no actions in that direction.

I know that the Papyrus project implemented such a feature in their context. But it is not trivial afaik and quite special to their data model.

Re: Flip row and column [message #1751162 is a reply to message #1751153]

Thu, 05 January 2017 03:11

Eclipse User

Thanks!

[EDIT] I've managed to create a simple version of a table that has items in (say) one row rather than one column, by basically overriding ListDataProvider and swapping row and column information.

[Updated on: Thu, 05 January 2017 04:06] by Moderator

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