Alright, I have another extension with gives you control over matrices of data.  It was developed to hold information for a variable number of committee members positions.  The number of columns are customizable in the extensions settings, as are the labels for the columns.

For a little more control replace the number of columns with a space and the labels with a space.  Then in the edit field page change the field type to a text field and enter the number of columns you would like in the textarea rows.  Then change it to a drop-down list and enter your labels in the drop down list box.  Finally change the field back to a multi text and you’re done.  Field specific settings.

Also, the template for this field is a pair and should look as follows (assuming my field name is {members}):

Update: You can now use the backspace="x" attribute like in weblog entries tags.

Oh wow!! I’ve always been looking for something like this, but ended up with tables inside a text-field. I’ll use it for future development. Thanks a lot!

This extension looks awesome! Thank you for creating it.

1) There’s a bug—incompatibility with other extensions of yours (I don’t know with which of them, that will take another hour).

It works if there’re no similar ext’s. If I use it & resave the Article after enabling other ext’s, the data disappear in the Article, Drop-Down doesn’t work at all—it has only the first line with “1").

2) How to use it similarly {if demo_extended != “"}?

(or to embed the option)

Mark, this a great extension, thanks for sharing so many great mods and exts.

One problem - for posts that don’t have a custom field set up with a multi text field, I was getting an undefined index error - index: field line :388

My quick solution was to check the query results and bail out in the modify_post() function that was throwing the error. Not sure if there’s a better way… but fyi:

-mike

I’ve fixed the undefined index error.  You can get the latest version up top.  Also if you’re using the “file”, “multi drop-down list”, or “checkbox” extension you’ll have to update them to fix the problem with saving that you were seeing.  You can find the updates at their respective posts:

Checkbox: http://expressionengine.com/forums/viewthread/38843/
Multi Drop-down List: http://expressionengine.com/forums/viewthread/38370/
Multi Text: http://expressionengine.com/forums/viewthread/39153/
File: http://expressionengine.com/forums/viewthread/38997/

Or you can find a list of them on my docs page: http://docs.markhuot.com

sigork, I was able to use the extension in a conditional to check if it was empty just as you said:

did this not work for you?

I think I understood now.

If I have

I should use

P.S. I tried it in such a way: {if col_1!=""}...{/if}

Thanks!

You got it place the following around your <ul>

I haven’t come up with a way to check individual columns yet., but i’ll investigate.

I was happy to see that you had updated the extension to get rid of the error.
Only now i’m experiencing a new one :(.

thanks GBO.  That should be fixed now.

Great! I’ll give it a shot.
(great ext btw!)

UPDATE: Installed and no more errors!!!

Awesome, thanks for the updates Mark. I’m using your extension to build a product variation select list (large, medium, small etc) with the label, value, and image name (already existing) each in their own column. Works awesome. Now if I may just see if can just figure out a way to make one column accept images either from a file-like interface or the build in EE uploader.

Thanks so much again for releasing these to the community, great stuff and great inspiration for what can be done with such a flexible system.

-mike

Hi there,

I wanted to use this plugin to create flash slideshows with images and captions.
I set it up to have three columns: images (wich contains a url to the images), caption_1 and caption_2.
now when i submit a new entry, only the content of {col_1} stays, the rest disappears ...

Have you heard about this before?
How can this be fixed ?

Thanks for pointing this out.  It stemmed from an error when custom (per-field) settings were used.  So I’ve fixed that and also fixed a bug that occurred when you tried to preview an entry (all your data would disappear!).  Like always grab the latest version at the top of this thread.

Great!
The error is gone! Thanks.
Hope i won’t encounter any errors anymore .

Mark, top work again.

Not sure if it’s possible but any chance of a backspace parameter?  I’d be looking to do something like this:

For the record, I’m using the Find & Replace plugin to ‘fix’ it right now.  Something cleaner would be better though.

Sorry, me again.  I’ve just noticed a strange error when using this extension.

The error only happens on pages where I’m using related or reverse related entries.  I’m not actually using the extension on these pages.

The error is:

Notice: Undefined index: field_id_60 in \blah\extensions\ext.multi_text.php on line 461

field_id_60 is the custom field set as multi text.

Just fyi, I’m experiencing a similar problem (different extension of Mark’s but same type of use of related content, etc) - here.