a few people have mentioned it, but i dont know if there was a solution yet… Is there a way to check if a column is empty? Ex:

Also, did read somewhere correctly that errors occur if any fields are left blank?

Like ira42‘s post above says, I too would like to sort the results on the template by one of the columns. I can think of two ways this could be done (totally riffing here, so I might be crazy):

1. In the entry in the control panel by dragging the rows up and down (yay asynchronous Javascript) which I’m sure would be a significant rewrite.

2. On the template level - maybe with the query module, or adding a new output parameter like:

I’d then assume that the above would grab every line where {col_1} equals “available” and then sort them by {col_2}, descending.

I guess a significant problem would arise if one was trying to sort by numbers (in my real-life working-on-it-right-now case that would be square footage). I’m not sure how these fields are stored in the database but it’s some form of text I would guess.

I’d almost prefer the “drag to sort” method in the Control Panel, myself.

Any tips or tricks welcome, and I’ll post something here if I figure out anything interesting!

I must be missing something.
Installed extension.
Added a custom field called multi
Named columns One Two Three to test.

Tried everything cannot get them to show in template.

Help please…
Updated Jan 02, ok, figured it out…

I would like to say THANKS for Multi-text - cool extension

Sorting for 1 col would be cool as a feature for the future.

Nevertheless Thumbs up!

2nd

Does anyone have an answer to this question?

Is

possible?

Yes, you can do that sort of thing. I actually have the very template open right now on which I’m doing that. What a coincidence! Note that to get it to work you might have to do it like this:

Actually - I don’t think you can keep any fields blank with this extension. I made it very clear to my client that they need to put a hyphen in any field for which they have no info - so I test against a hyphen.

Perfect!! Thank you a ton Ryan.

I keep getting stuck with this extension, it doesn’t seem to record empty rows or empty text fields.

Is it possible if I change the extension file to make it pre-populate each text field with a single letter such as “x” so that when the table is displayed I know what fields are empty.

What would I need to change?

I’d appreciate any help.

Try changing line #384 in ext.multi_text.php from

to

Nevermind, my above solution doesn’t work perfectly. Let me look at it again.

grazie

it appears to work

It works correctly on a new entry, but not on an edited entry. It adds another dash in the fields for edited entries… at least it’s doing that on my end.

It works correctly on a new entry, but not on an edited entry. It adds another dash in the fields for edited entries… at least it’s doing that on my end.

Gotcha.

I did a bit of work on it with clear and blur fields and I got it to work.

I also got rid of it adding an extra row.

All the corrections I made are in the Publish function.  I have to post these corrections in multiple messages because the character length requirements for this forum.

This is replacing the js starting on line 253

And I changed this chunk around line 387 (with the new js):

Anyway it now works for what I need it to do.

Thanks for getting me started.

Mark, we’re having a slight problem with your extension.

We have 3 columns, but some rows will not always have content in each column.  For example the columns are “Name”, “Link”, “Title”.  Not all the rows will have a link though.  When this happens the content from the 3rd column “Title” moves down into the next row.

Has anyone else come across this?  Is there a workaround?

Hi there,

Not sure if there was ever a workaround for this but I had this problem too once. I just put a ‘-’ symbol into the fields that didn’t need any information in them. You can probably then in your template just use an {if} statement to say if there is a dash then don’t output the information?

Hope that helps?

Best wishes,

Mark

Is it possible to have 2 different column configuration instances per weblog?

So if I wanted on field to have a 3 column layout with “Name”, “Date”, and “Year” for one field.
And another field to have a 2 column layout with “Boat Type” and “Age”.

How would I go about doing this?

Is it possible to have 2 different column configuration instances per weblog?

So if I wanted on field to have a 3 column layout with “Name”, “Date”, and “Year” for one field.
And another field to have a 2 column layout with “Boat Type” and “Age”.

How would I go about doing this?

Yes, it is possible. Read Mark’s first post to this thread.