I had bee limiting my search for information to the user mailing list. Once I realized that there was a lot of this kind of talk on the dev list, I searched there and found a number of helpful posts that give me some hints as to how I might accomplish what I need. Specifically using <t:parameter name="xxxCell"> to indicate a cell and then putting whatever I wanted inside that cell.
Matt Watter wrote: > > As the message title suggests, I'm really struggling just a bit with the > Grid component. > > The Grid component seems fantastic for fairly simple use cases, and I have > no doubt that it works well in situations that are a little more complex, > but I can't quite figure out the more complex usage situations. I have a > list of courses that I want to display in the Grid. If all I wanted to do > was output a row of textual information associated with each individual > attribute of a course, then Grid is wonderfully simple to use. In my case > however, the information that I want to display for each course not that > straightforward. Among other things, each row will contain a list of the > locations where that course is held as well as thumbnails next to each > location of the building. > > With a Loop component, this is extremely simple. I just pull the items > from the course and display them manually for each iteration of the loop. > I thought Grid would just be an enhancement of Loop with added benefits > like automatic paging and sortable columns, but that doesn't seem to be > the case. > > Speaking of paging, does anyone have an example of how to implement paging > without pulling back the entire list of objects from the database every > time a users switches pages? If I only pull back the 20 I plan to show on > a page, then I end up with just one page. I need to tell the Grid that > there are a total of xxx items so it generates the correct page links, but > I must have missed the property to do that; or perhaps it's handled in > some other way that I haven't yet figured out. > > Thanks in advance for any suggestions you might have. > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/-T5--Struggling-with-Grid-tf4250632.html#a12099160 Sent from the Tapestry - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
