automatically "unpublish" or toggle columns, based on entry

[susannanam]

hello all

i have a list with many columns. some columns have only a header line and the rest is null entries. the null-entry-columns depend on the query, it is not always the same ones! i would like to check the values in the columns and automatically hide those columns from the list. is that somehow possible?

thanks
susanne

 

[cheesegrits]

Can you point me at the list in question, and give me some examples of what value(s), in which row/column(s), needs to control the display of which columns?

You could go about this in two ways - either with a custom template, and do it in the PHP where we build the list display (so the columns you don't want never get rendered to the page), or with some custom JS which runs as the page loads, and applies CSS styling to hide the unwanted columns.

I'd need to see the list, and get a better understanding of how many permutations of "control" elements there are with "controlled" columns, in order to advise you on the best approach.

-- hugh

 

[susannanam]

thanks for your quick answer Hugh i will give you the details in skype

 

[cheesegrits]

I added some code to the default.php in your custom template to handle this. See this thread:

http://www.fabrikar.com/forums/index.php?threads/list-skip-first-row-and-use-it-as-headers.39588/

... which the code also addresses.

-- hugh

 

[susannanam]

the hiding works perfectly, thanks Hugh... regarding the header row, we are almost there but not yet

 

[cheesegrits]

Yeah, I didn't realize you want to actually replace the headers with that first row of data. Hmmmm. That'll take a little more thought and some re-structuring of your custom template. I'll try and get to it today.

-- hugh