Use first column as header and maybe re-arrange columns

[bjarnef]

I have just tested the property editor and it seems to work great! :)

Some suggestions:
You can in advanced options choose "use first row as header". It could sometimes be useful to set "first column as header", e.g. like this example: http://www.w3schools.com/html/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_table_headers
See also that feature for the Tabular Data datatype: http://our.umbraco.org/projects/backoffice-extensions/tabular-data

Furthermore you can drag-and-drop the table rows to re-arrange the rows.. could this be an option for columns too? Maybe a property to check in the property editor settings, whether it should be activated as not all might want this for all table properties.. but the re-arrange of rows is useful in every case I think :)

Another suggestion I also had for the Tabular Data datatype was to specify the column width :)
I'm not sure what the best is for usability.. but maybe a right-click context menu could be supplement to the icons next to the rows/columns.. e.g. if you have lets says 10 columns you have to move to the right to add/remove rows and re-arrange rows.. maybe let you re-arrange rows/columns by dragging the row/column number too?
http://handsontable.com could perhaps give some inspiration?..

Just some suggestions :)

[kgiszewski]

Thanks for the awesome feedback.

The feature set I selected was highly influenced by "what I need now". :)

We had speculated about doing column sorting. Not sure if we'll put that in just yet.

Feel free to send a PR if you want ;)

[bjarnef]

Okay, but some suggestions to think about :)

However the feature I think most is missing is "use first row as header" .. here are some different examples: http://webdesign.about.com/od/examples/l/bl-table-examples.htm

don't know if there are cases where you need colspan and rowspan.. mostly I don't.

[kgiszewski]

You could pull off the first column as header easily by adding a style to that column then in your view detect that style and use th instead of td. I've stuck between making the style be the determining factor or using a checkbox.

[bjarnef]

Okay, I'll try that sometime :)

Another thing I was thinking of is if some of the concept from Archetype could be used - here I think of use a property editor as cell type? .. see e.g. Handsontable here: http://handsontable.com/demo/numeric.html

First I think perhaps a text (default), numeric, date, checkbox (bool) and maybe a dropdown? It should probably only be some basic datatypes like these..
I am not sure if I work well with dynamic columns.. but maybe if predefined columns was an option.

I am just brainstorming a bit now :)