Formatted table help!

[dleahy]

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Having trouble programming my first table. I keep getting ugliness in the FP preview...

Can anyone point me in the right direction here?

 

Here is what I have to accomplish:

 

http://postimage.org/image/ak802f4i9/http://s8.postimage.org/z0q5ww591/Screen_shot_2012_07_05_at_4_06_21_PM.png

 

We are going to be utilizing this as a FP template imported in MarcomCentral.

The Agenda fields will all be prefilled.

 

Any help is greatly appreciated!

 

Cheers,

-Dano

[Dan Korn]

Just make a two-column table without any cell borders or margins, and set the text in the first column to green. Something like this:

var table = new FPTable;
table.AddColumns(6000, 20000); // set column widths here
for (var i = 1; i <= 4; i++)
{
   var row = table.AddRow();
   row.Cells[0].Content = '<color name="Green">' + TaggedDataField("Agenda Time " + i) + '</color>';
   row.Cells[1].Content = TaggedDataField("Agenda Paragraph " + i);
   row.Cells[0].Margins = row.Cells[1].Margins  = { Top:0, Bottom:0, Left:0, Right:0 };
}
return table.MakeTags();

[dleahy]

Thanks Dan! That's going to save me some serious time.

 

Is there a way to set line height of text or cell height? I couldn't find it in the TablerBuilder tutorial...

Getting some serious crunching of type...

 

Here is a screenshot:

http://s8.postimage.org/k6o18m8bp/Screen_shot_2012_07_06_at_9_50_08_AM.png

 

Cheers,

-Dano

[Dan Korn]

Is there a way to set line height of text or cell height? I couldn't find it in the TablerBuilder tutorial...

Getting some serious crunching of type...

Set the top and bottom margins to something other than zero.

 

P.S. I think I'd skip that dinner.

[dleahy]

Haha! Ya...I'd skip it too!

 

Alright..I thought it might have something to do with the margins..

 

Also

If I have to add a row that is separate from the dynamic rows. Like so:

http://s15.postimage.org/v5ejt2cl7/Screen_shot_2012_07_06_at_11_25_54_AM.png

 

See the Agenda all the way to the far left?

Everything else has to stay aligned as is.

 

How can I work the static text "Agenda" into your code on the same row?

 

Cheers,

-Dan

[Dan Korn]

See the Agenda all the way to the far left?

Everything else has to stay aligned as is.

 

How can I work the static text "Agenda" into your code on the same row?

Add another column as column 0 and populate it as needed. Add one to the other code to shift the columns over.

[dleahy]

Ya but how do I stop Agenda from duplicating down the rows and only stay in the first one.

 

http://s7.postimage.org/oedjg6wmj/Screen_shot_2012_07_06_at_12_44_20_PM.png

 

var table = new FPTable;
table.AddColumns(0,10810, 5200,7200); // set column widths here
for (var i = 1; i <= 5; i++)
{
   var row = table.AddRow();
   row.Cells[1].Content = "Agenda";
   row.Cells[2].Content = TaggedDataField("Time " + i) + " " + TaggedDataField("ampm " + i) ;
   row.Cells[3].Content = TaggedDataField("Agenda " + i);
   row.Cells[0].Margins = { Top:0, Bottom:2, Left:0, Right:0 };
   row.Cells[0].Font="SmithNephew"; 
   row.Cells[0].TextColor="Black";
   row.Cells[0].PointSize="9";
   row.Cells[1].Font="SmithNephew";
   row.Cells[1].Margins = { Top:0, Bottom:2, Left:0, Right:0 };
   row.Cells[1].PointSize="9";
   row.Cells[2].Font="SmithNephew"; 
   row.Cells[2].TextColor="Black";
   row.Cells[2].Margins = { Top:0, Bottom:2, Left:0, Right:0 };
   row.Cells[2].PointSize="9";
   row.Cells[3].Font="SmithNephew"; 
   row.Cells[3].TextColor="Black";
   row.Cells[3].PointSize="9";
   row.Cells[3].Margins = { Top:0, Bottom:2, Left:0, Right:0 };
}
return table.MakeTags();

I surely could benefit from a javascript 101 class or webinar...

[Dan Korn]

Ya but how do I stop Agenda from duplicating down the rows and only stay in the first one.

...
for (var i = 1; i <= 5; i++)
{
   var row = table.AddRow();
[color=Red]    row.Cells[1].Content = "Agenda";[/color]
...

Just conditionalize it to only output that for the first row. Replace the line in red above with this:

if (i == 1)
   row.Cells[1].Content = "Agenda";

Or:

row.Cells[1].Content = (i == 1) : "Agenda" ? "";

[dleahy]

Your a legend. Thanks!