Seam Framework - seam-excel: master-details with subtotals

I'm trying to render excel worksheet that contains list of employees data grouped by departments. The only way I have found is to to arrange list of e:worksheets with the same name by starting row. I find it to be unnecessarily difficult. And render subtotals requires extra e:worksheet per master record.

What I need is a tag that could help me to iterate (vertically and horizontally) e:worksheets without needs to calculate starting rows and columns.

Ideally it would be nice if seam-excel introduced a component similar to rich:dataTable. (Probably it would be possible to override render kit for this particular component).

And another difficulty is that e:worksheet does not work without var attribute. From the other hand I would like to just layout several cells on the worksheet. It would be convinient if there was a tag that renders just matrix with width and height specified.

Tags: excel

1 Reply:

Re: seam-excel: master-details with subtotals

28. Aug 2008, 20:52 CET | Link

Nicklas Karlsson

You're one tough customer ;-)

Show me some imaginary xhtml what you are looking for

PS. worksheet should work without a var. Try


<e:workbook
	xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" 
	xmlns:e="http://jboss.com/products/seam/excel">
	<e:worksheet>
		<e:cell row="1" column="1">Hello world!</e:cell>
	</e:worksheet>
</e:workbook>

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