Changing Listview's Layout & Style

[lhat]

I've a need to change the layout of my Xataface app's Listview to allow things like a vertical orientation, perhaps with collapsing subsections (via AJAX, for ex.), or to make the column labels perpendicular (as one does in spreadsheet headers). My aim in both cases is to pack as much info as possible into the visible screen space.

I suppose this would be done by modifying the Smarty template for the listview, but I'm not sure how to do so, nor where to put the resulting custom template so that it would work for just a given application. It would be nice to be able to add this custom listview, whilest retaining the default one.

Pointers/suggestions would be most welcome.

[shannah]

I think you're going to have a bit of an adventure trying to get vertical column headers. Let me know if you find a way, but all the solutions I have seen don't look very good (e.g. IE only CSS, or image generation, or SVG..)

See this document http://xataface.com/documentation/how-to/list_tab
for tips on customizing list view.

-Steve