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Brief Description:
Tableau builds output lists in the form of tables. Output is fully classable, with row/column and pagination controls. This is ideal for building product category pages for e-commerce sites.

Good work.
Please give a sample template.

We just posted 1.0.1, which fixes a minor start-row bug in the pagination.

There’s a usage example in the code, but a repeat for those that need it:

[[Tableau? &startId=`47` &columns=`3` &rows=`4` &paginate=`1` &pagenums=`1` &tmpl=`ProductSummary`]]

This will create a 3x4 table of the children under node 47, with pagination and page numbers showing, using output template (chunk) ProductSummary.

Ok, please give a sample of ProductSummary

This is just like other modules - you can make it look like whatever you want. If you really need a sample, a really simple one might be:



The only thing it doesn’t do (well) is eval()’ing recursive snippet/chunk references from within the templates themselves. We’re working on that.

Can I add TV additional data?

I know I could download it an check but I thought it might be quicker to just ask. Where does Tableau get the data to put in the cells? Can it use data from a CSV file or from the MODx DB?

Looks like it just uses modx-docs / -containers...

Quote from: ganeshXL at May 14, 2008, 12:13 AM

Looks like it just uses modx-docs / -containers...

One doc per cell, or does it actually parse them using delimiters?

I am trying to use a chunk like:


but cant get it to display the introtext/summary??

Am I just being a dumb-dumb, or does this not allow it?