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Editors

Jspreadsheet editors will enhance the user experience and transform any application into a powerful data management tool. There are several native editors and the developer can create or integrate plugins to create new custom data editors. The current native editors are: text, numeric, hidden, dropdown, checkbox, radio, calendar, image, color, email, url, progressbar, rating, autonumber, HTML, percent and notes. The source code for all editors is available in the GitHub for reference.

Custom editor

A custom editor requires the implementation of five different methods, as described in the table below:

Method Description
createCell When a new cell is created.
createCell(cell: Object, value: Any, x: Number, y: Number, instance: Object, options: Object) : void
updateCell When the cell value changes.
updateCell(cell: Object, value: Any, x: Number, y: Number, instance: Object, options: Object) : void
openEditor When the user starts editing a cell.
openEditor(cell: Object, value: Any, x: Number, y: Number, instance: Object, options: Object) : void
closeEditor When the user finalizes the edit of a cell.
closeEditor(cell: Object, confirmChanges: Boolean, x: Number, y: Number, instance: Object, options: Object) : void
destroyCell When a cell is destroyed.
destroyCell(cell: Object, x: Number, y: Number, instance: Object) : void
updateProperty Apply updates when the properties of a cell or column is changed.
updateProperty(x: Number, y: Number, instance: Object, options: Object) : void
get Transform the raw data into processed data. It will show text instead of an id in the type dropdown, for example.
get(options: Object, value: Any) : processedValue

Custom editor

The following example implements a simple custom data editor.

let percent = function() {
    let methods = {};

    methods.updateCell = function(cell, value, x, y, instance) {
        value = Number(value) || 0;
        if (cell) {
            cell.innerText = value + '%';
        }
        return value / 100;
    }

    methods.createCell = methods.updateCell;

    methods.openEditor = function(cell, value, x, y, instance) {
        instance.parent.input.onblur = function() {
            instance.closeEditor(cell, true);
        }
        if (value) {
            instance.parent.input.innerText = (Number(value)) * 100;
        }
        jSuites.focus(instance.parent.input);
    }

    methods.closeEditor = function(cell, save, x, y, instance) {
        if (save) {
            let value = Number(instance.parent.input.innerText);
        } else {
            let value = '';
        }

        return value;
    }

    methods.get = function(options, val) {
        return (val * 100) + '%';
    }

    return methods;
}();

More source code examples can be found at https://github.com/jspreadsheet/editors

Using a custom editor

Considering the percent editor above, the column.type defines a native or custom editor, as follows:

<div id="spreadsheet"></div>
<script>
let data = [
    ['PHP', '1'],
    ['Javascript', '0.4'],
];

jspreadsheet(document.getElementById('spreadsheet'), {
    data: data,
    columns: [
        {
            type: 'text',
            title: 'Course Title',
            width: '300px'
        },
        {
            type: 'percent',
            title: 'Percent',
            width: '200px'
        },
     ]
});
</script>

Editors on the cell level Pro

Using the Pro distribution, it is possible to overwrite the column configuration at a cell level using the property cells as shown below:

<html>
<script src="https://jspreadsheet.com/v8/jspreadsheet.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://jspreadsheet.com/v8/jspreadsheet.css" type="text/css" />
<script src="https://jsuites.net/v5/jsuites.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://jsuites.net/v5/jsuites.css" type="text/css" />

<div id="spreadsheet"></div>

<script>
jspreadsheet(document.getElementById('spreadsheet'), {
    worksheets: [{
        minDimensions: [5,5],
        cells: {
            A1: { type:'percent' }
        }
    }]
});
</script>
</html>

Examples

Basic example using multiple different editors.

<html>
<script src="https://jspreadsheet.com/v8/jspreadsheet.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://jspreadsheet.com/v8/jspreadsheet.css" type="text/css" />
<script src="https://jsuites.net/v5/jsuites.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://jsuites.net/v5/jsuites.css" type="text/css" />

<div id="spreadsheet"></div>

<script>
// Set the JSS spreadsheet license
jspreadsheet.setLicense('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');

// Create the spreadsheet
jspreadsheet(document.getElementById('spreadsheet'), {
    data: [
        ['Jazz', 'Honda', '2019-02-12', '/templates/v8/img/nophoto.jpg', true, 2000.00, '#777700'],
        ['Civic', 'Honda', '2018-07-11', '/templates/v8/img/nophoto.jpg', true, 4000.01, '#007777'],
    ],
    filters: true,
    columns: [
        {
            type:'text',
            title:'Car',
            width:120
        },
        {
            type: 'dropdown',
            title:'Make',
            width:180,
            source:[
                "Alfa Romeo",
                "Audi",
                "Bmw",
                "Chevrolet",
                "Chrystler",
                "Dodge",
                "Ferrari",
                "Fiat",
                "Ford",
                "Honda",
                "Hyundai",
                "Jaguar",
                "Jeep",
                "Kia",
                "Mazda",
                "Mercedez-Benz",
                "Mitsubish",
                "Nissan",
                "Peugeot",
                "Porsche",
                "Subaru",
                "Suzuki",
                "Toyota",
                "Volkswagen"
              ]
        },
        {
            type: 'calendar',
            title:'Available',
            width:120,
            options:{ format:'DD/MM/YYYY' }
        },
        {
            type: 'image',
            title:'Photo',
            width:120
        },
        {
            type: 'checkbox',
            title:'Stock',
            width:80
        },
        {
            type: 'text',
            title:'Price',
            mask:'$ #.##0,00',
            width:100,
            decimal:',',
            disabledMaskOnEdition: true
        },
        {
            type: 'color',
            width:100,
            render:'square',
        },
     ]
});
</script>
</html>