[kupu-dev] table editing woes

[Sebastian Stark]

Dear list,

We just upgraded from plone 1 to plone 2.5. Our users are very happy  
about new web experience with kupu, it makes plone actually usable  
for a lot of them.

However, there is one issue that is really limiting in some cases: In  
tables you can not shift columns around. To illustrate what I mean I  
make a short ascii example. Take the following table:

   A1 B1 C1 D1
   A2 B2 C2 D2
   A3 B3 C3 D3
   A4 B4 C4 D4

Now something that is needed very often is to change this table into  
this one:

   A1 XX C1 D1
   A2 B1 C2 D2
   A3 B2 C3 D3
   A4 B3 C4 D4
   XX B4 XX XX

while the XX fields are new values. The "B" column was shifted by one  
row.

This is currently something one needs to do by more or less rewriting  
the whole table while it could have been done with a single mouse  
click. I am thinking of little clickable arrows for every column (and  
maybe also rows) that do the shift and, when a cell "drops out"

Do you think this feature would be hard to add to kupu? I would like  
to try to do it myself if somebody could give me a pointer where to  
start.


Sebastian

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Sebastian Stark -- http://www.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de/~stark
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics