Table editing tools

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We need to use tables in a text field in a layout.
I did it with html code, but a table tool should be useful in the future ;-)

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See this question for how to enable the table tool in CKEditor: https://answers.launchpad.net/xibo/+question/144100
Also available here: http://www.brianmathis.net/2011/02/15/howto-enable-plugins-in-ckeditor/

Brian

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I've used a feature similar to this in another Digital Signage software. For that software, the steps to create a table was as follows:

1. Create a "data table" (kind of like an outline of where your data fields will be placed)
2. Create a database, define the data table's fields, and enter the info that you want displayed
3. Create the data fields inside the data table

When the slide runs, the data is pulled from the database (I believe they used MS SQL) and displayed where the data table and data fields were designed. This data was able to be changed on the fly via the admin interface.

I taken one of my example slides and showed kind of what it looks like.

Data Table Outline
http://img145.imageshack.us/i/1datatable.jpg/

Data Fields
http://img718.imageshack.us/i/2datafields.jpg/

I can explain in more detail if needed.

Brian

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