alfresco-ng2-components/docs/core/components/data-column.component.md

Title, Added, Status, Last reviewed

Title	Added	Status	Last reviewed
Data Column Component	v2.0.0	Active	2019-04-12

Data Column Component

Defines column properties for DataTable, Tasklist, Document List and other components.

Contents

• Basic Usage
• Class members
  • Properties
• Details
  • Conditional visibility
  • Automatic column header translation
  • Custom tooltips
  • Column Template
  • Styling Techniques
  • Using the copyContent option
  • Example of column customData
• See also

Basic Usage

<adf-datatable [data]="data">
    <data-columns>
        <data-column key="icon" type="image" [sortable]="false"></data-column>
        <data-column key="id" title="Id"></data-column>
        <data-column key="createdOn" title="Created"></data-column>
        <data-column key="name" title="Name" class="full-width name-column"></data-column>
        <data-column key="createdBy.name" title="Created By"></data-column>
    </data-columns>
</adf-datatable>

Class members

Properties

Name	Type	Default value	Description
copyContent	boolean		Enables/disables a Clipboard directive to allow copying of cell contents.
cssClass	string		Additional CSS class to be applied to column (header and cells).
customData	any		You can specify any custom data which can be used by any specific feature
draggable	boolean	false	Toggles drag and drop for header column.
editable	boolean	false	Toggles the editing support of the column data.
focus	boolean	true	Enable or disable cell focus
format	string		Value format (if supported by the parent component), for example format of the date.
formatTooltip	Function		Custom tooltip formatter function.
id	string	""	Column identifier.
isHidden	boolean	false	Hides columns
key	string		Data source key. Can be either a column/property key like title or a property path like createdBy.name.
sortable	boolean	true	Toggles ability to sort by this column, for example by clicking the column header.
sortingKey	string		When using server side sorting the column used by the api call where the sorting will be performed
srTitle	string		Title to be used for screen readers.
title	string	""	Display title of the column, typically used for column headers. You can use the i18n resource key to get it translated automatically.
type	string	"text"	Value type for the column. Possible settings are 'text', 'image', 'date', 'fileSize', 'location', and 'json'.

Details

Conditional visibility

You can use ngIf directives to provide conditional visibility support for the columns:

<data-column
    *nfIg="showNameColumn"
    key="name"
    title="MY.RESOURCE.KEY">
</data-column>

Automatic column header translation

You can use i18n resource keys with the DataColumn title property. The component will automatically check the appropriate i18n resources and fetch the corresponding value.

<data-column
    key="name"
    title="MY.RESOURCE.KEY">
</data-column>

This feature is optional. Regular text (either plain or converted via the translate pipe) will still work as normal.

Custom tooltips

You can create custom tooltips for the table cells by providing a formatTooltip property with a tooltip formatter function when declaring a data column.

<data-column
    title="Name"
    key="name"
    [formatTooltip]="getNodeNameTooltip"
    class="full-width ellipsis-cell">
</data-column>

And the code in this case will be similar to the following:

import { DataColumn, DataRow } from '@alfresco/adf-core';

@Component({...})
export class MyComponent {
    ...

    getNodeNameTooltip(row: DataRow, col: DataColumn): string {
        if (row) {
            return row.getValue('name');
        }
        return null;
    }
}

To disable the tooltip your function can return null or an empty string.

Column Template

You can provide custom column/cell header and templates that may contain other Angular components or HTML elements:

Every cell in the DataTable component is bound to the dynamic data context containing the following properties:

Name	Type	Description
data	DataTableAdapter	Data adapter instance.
row	DataRow	Current data row instance.
col	DataColumn	Current data column instance.

You can use all three properties to gain full access to underlying data from within your custom templates. In order to wire HTML templates with the data context you will need to define a variable that is bound to $implicit as shown below:

<ng-template let-context="$implicit">
    <!-- template body -->
</ng-template>

The name format is let-VARIABLE_NAME="$implicit" where VARIABLE_NAME is the name of the variable you want to bind the template data context to.

You can also get a cell value from the underlying DataTableAdapter:

context.data.getValue(entry.row, entry.col);

You can retrieve all property values for the underlying node, including nested properties (via property paths):

context.row.getValue('name')
context.row.getValue('createdByUser.displayName')

You may want to use the row API to get access to the raw values.

<data-column title="Name" key="name" sortable="true" class="full-width ellipsis-cell">
    <ng-template let-context="$implicit">
        <span>Hi! {{context.row.getValue('createdByUser.displayName')}}</span>
        <span>Hi! {{context.row.getValue('name')}}</span>
    </ng-template>
</data-column>

Use the data API to get values with post-processing (eg, datetime or icon conversion).

In the Example below we will prepend Hi! to each file and folder name in the list:

<data-column title="Name" key="name" sortable="true" class="full-width ellipsis-cell">
    <ng-template let-entry="$implicit">
        <span>Hi! {{entry.data.getValue(entry.row, entry.col)}}</span>
    </ng-template>
</data-column>

In the example below we will show capitalised custom name for a column:

<data-column title="Name" key="name" sortable="true" class="full-width ellipsis-cell">
    <adf-data-column-header>
        <ng-template let-entry="$implicit">
            <span>NAME</span>
        </ng-template>
    </adf-data-column-header>
</data-column>

In the Example below we will integrate the adf-tag-node-list component within the document list.

<data-column
    title="{{'DOCUMENT_LIST.COLUMNS.TAG' | translate}}"
    key="id"
    sortable="true"
    class="full-width ellipsis-cell">
    <ng-template let-entry="$implicit">
        <adf-tag-node-list  [nodeId]="entry.data.getValue(entry.row, entry.col)"></adf-tag-node-list>
    </ng-template>
</data-column>

Styling Techniques

You can add a custom CSS class to a column using its class property. This is useful for many purposes - some examples are given below.

Custom icons for selected rows

Custom styling can be used to change the look and feel of the icon for the selected rows.

Let's start by assigning an "image-table-cell" class to the thumbnail column:

<adf-document-list ...>
    <data-columns>

        <data-column
            key="$thumbnail"
            type="image"
            [sortable]="false"
            class="adf-image-table-cell">
        </data-column>

        ...
    </data-columns>
</adf-document-list>

Now your application can define styles to change the content of the column based on conditions such as the selection state:

adf-document-list ::ng-deep adf-datatable > table > tbody > tr.is-selected > td.adf-datatable-cell.adf-datatable-cell--image.adf-image-table-cell > div > div > mat-icon > svg {
    fill: #00bcd4;
}

Once your application starts you should see the following icon for each selected row:

Hiding columns on small screens

You can hide columns on small screens using custom CSS rules:

@media all and (max-width: 768px) {

    alfresco-document-list ::ng-deep th.desktop-only .cell-value {
        display: none;
    }

    alfresco-document-list ::ng-deep td.desktop-only .cell-value {
        display: none;
    }
}

Now you can declare columns and assign the desktop-only class where needed:

<adf-document-list ...>
    <data-columns>

        <!-- always visible columns -->

        <data-column key="$thumbnail" type="image"></data-column>
        <data-column
                title="Name"
                key="name"
                class="full-width ellipsis-cell">
        </data-column>

        <!-- desktop-only columns -->

        <data-column
                title="Created by"
                key="createdByUser.displayName"
                class="desktop-only">
        </data-column>
        <data-column
                title="Created on"
                key="createdAt"
                type="date"
                format="medium"
                class="desktop-only">
        </data-column>
    </data-columns>
</adf-document-list>

Desktop View

Mobile View

Using the copyContent option

When the copyContent property is true, a Clipboard directive is added to each cell in the column. This lets the user copy the cell content to the clipboard with a mouse click.

See the Clipboard Directive page for full details of the directive.

Example of using copyContent from a JSON config file:

[
 {"type": "text", "key": "id", "title": "Id", "copyContent": "true"},
 {"type": "text", "key": "name", "title": "name"},
]

HTML <data-column> element example:

<adf-tasklist ...>
    <data-columns>
        <data-column [copyContent]="true" key="id" title="Id"></data-column>
        ...
    </data-columns>
</adf-tasklist>

Example of column customData

If you would like to pass any custom data related to your specific feature, you can use customData

HTML <data-column> element example:

<data-column [customData]="MyCustomData" key="id" title="Id"></data-column>

You can use generic type for DataColumn in order to get intellisense working e.g.

const dataColumn: DataColumn<{ shouldPerformActionIfDisplayed: boolean }> = {
    ...
    customData: { shouldPerformActionIfDisplayed: true }
}

// We should get proper types
consol.log(dataColumn.customData.shouldPerformActionIfDisplayed);

// Now we can use this data in our feature e.g.
const shouldPerformAction = this.columns
    .filter(column => column.isHidden)
    .some(column => column.customData?.shouldPerformActionIfDisplayed === true);

if (shouldPerformAction) { /* action */}

See also

• Document list component
• Datatable component
• Task list component