table widget, group widget

[confundido]

Here are a couple issues I'm having with the table widget:

1) I can't add rows. I get "error on page" when I click add.
2) the only time I can view the data is when I'm editiong the record.

I cannot get the record to save using the group widget.

Any ideas?

[shannah]

Hi,

The table and group widgets are a little sketchy at this time... probably best to avoid them for now. They both imply XML storage and must be used in a TEXT field. The javascript to add a row with the table widget appears to have an incompatability with IE - it works on Firefox. Because they are stored as XML it sometimes isn't easy to work with the data from the rest of the database.

Rather than using the 'group' widget, it is probably better to just have a separate field for all of the pieces of data and use the 'group' parameter to group them together on the form.

Currently there aren't any real alternatives to the table widget to get that type of functionality - but I hope to add a sort of 'portal' widget in the next version that will allow you to work with related records in a sort of table widget - rather than store them in XML... this would be more natural for the relational model.

That said, I'd like to sort out these issues. If you can add a description to the issue tracker along with the field definition, relevant fields.ini file portions and SQL table definition, I'll try to get on it.

Best regards

Steve