Modifying Woodstock table properties

[abhidesh]

I have an existing visual web JSF page with a Woodstock table component in it. I need to modify the table's properties, such as the header text of columns, column bindings, etc. In NetBeans 6.x, when I right-click the table in the design view of the page, and bring up the Table Layout or Bind to Data dialog, the dialog doesn't read my existing settings from the page, and displays the default table settings. So I have to set the properties of the entire table from scratch every time I want to change of the settings. This is quite labor intensive, and hard to reproduce.

 

Is there another way (other than manually editing the JSP page and the page bean source) to modify the table properties? Are the two dialogs being enahanced to read the JSP page in a future NetBeans release?

 

Please post any feedback if you are a Woodstock user/developer. Thanks.

 

[John Yeary]

Hello Abhijeet,

I am not sure I understand your post entirely. I understand that there is not really an easy way to manipulate the facets like "actionsTop" and "actionsBottom", but I have plenty of tables that I have added additional facets. The manually manipulated tables do not lose track of their settings. If you are losing your settings, please open an issue with the Project Woodstock developers at http://woodstock.dev.java.net

The bean bindings will not appear unless they are a Request, Session, or Application (Visual JSF) bean. The manually created beans will appear in the JSP editor and can be used with no problems. The visual appearance will not display the typical design time elements like "abc" or 123.

It would be nice to have wizards, or additional properties displayed to add facets without doing it manually.

John

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Abhijeet Deshpande <abhidesh@...> wrote:

I have an existing visual web JSF page with a Woodstock table component in it. I need to modify the table's properties, such as the header text of columns, column bindings, etc. In NetBeans 6.x, when I right-click the table in the design view of the page, and bring up the Table Layout or Bind to Data dialog, the dialog doesn't read my existing settings from the page, and displays the default table settings. So I have to set the properties of the entire table from scratch every time I want to change of the settings. This is quite labor intensive, and hard to reproduce.

 

Is there another way (other than manually editing the JSP page and the page bean source) to modify the table properties? Are the two dialogs being enahanced to read the JSP page in a future NetBeans release?

 

Please post any feedback if you are a Woodstock user/developer. Thanks.

 

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