Details
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Type:
Improvement
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Status:
Closed
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Priority:
Trivial
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Resolution: Fixed
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Affects Version/s: 1.0 RC1
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Fix Version/s: 1.0 RC2
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Component/s: Documentation
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Labels:None
Description
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imported from sf tracker
id 1015480
submitted by Will Glass-Husain - wglass
http://sourceforge.net/support/tracker.php?aid=1015480
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Hi,
I've been noticing that new users again and again (me
too, when I started) have a question like:
http://www.mail-archive.com/displaytag-user%
40lists.sourceforge.net/msg01625.html
***
New to using the display taglib and am stumped by this
on. Is there anyway to put more
than one data column in a single table column? In my
case, I'm trying to output names.
The
names are stored as firstname, middlename, and
lastname; each individual columns in the
database table. I'd like to output them like "lastname,
firstname middlename" all in
the
same column.
***
Usually there's at least one wrong or overly complicated
answer (use a new property, use a Decorator) before
the optimal answer: use <display:column> with a body.
This tells me there's a lot of users out there who never
learned this.
I suggest an example of this be added VERY
PROMINENTLY to the website. Maybe in the tutorial
page under basic usage. (It is pretty basic - I use it all
the time).
http://displaytag.sourceforge.net/tut_basic.html
<display:column title="name" >
<c:out value="${row.first_name}"/>
<c:out value="${row.last_name}"/>
</display:column>
imported from sf tracker
id 1015480
submitted by Will Glass-Husain - wglass
http://sourceforge.net/support/tracker.php?aid=1015480
====
Hi,
I've been noticing that new users again and again (me
too, when I started) have a question like:
http://www.mail-archive.com/displaytag-user%
40lists.sourceforge.net/msg01625.html
***
New to using the display taglib and am stumped by this
on. Is there anyway to put more
than one data column in a single table column? In my
case, I'm trying to output names.
The
names are stored as firstname, middlename, and
lastname; each individual columns in the
database table. I'd like to output them like "lastname,
firstname middlename" all in
the
same column.
***
Usually there's at least one wrong or overly complicated
answer (use a new property, use a Decorator) before
the optimal answer: use <display:column> with a body.
This tells me there's a lot of users out there who never
learned this.
I suggest an example of this be added VERY
PROMINENTLY to the website. Maybe in the tutorial
page under basic usage. (It is pretty basic - I use it all
the time).
http://displaytag.sourceforge.net/tut_basic.html
<display:column title="name" >
<c:out value="${row.first_name}"/>
<c:out value="${row.last_name}"/>
</display:column>