Change table headers

[Segi]

Is there a way to change the table column heading at run time so that instead of displaying the column name, I can set the display value to something else ?

I have been looking through the server side JavaScript APIs and have not found a way to do so.

[Jon]

You need to set the labelText property of a table column - it's not obvious that this is used for the column header. You can set it to any value you choose e.g.

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tables.T1.COL1.labelText.text = "New header";

[LKirby]

Hi,

I've tried this out for a project where there will be 5 columns on a table that are dynamically set. Using JS I can lookup and set the text for these columns fine in a before page script, but as soon as I click on the next / prev page button on the table control, the columns loose their labels and go back to the default values.

I've tried doing it via

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tables.tname.colname.getLabelText().setText("actual_column_label"); 

and

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controls.col_name.getTableColumn().labelText.setText("actual_column_label");

but the columns still loose their labels when going between table pages.

Any ideas on this? I'm using Ebase 4.5.1.

[Jon]

You need to change the header text before you load any data into the table. Alternatively, if you already have data in the table, you will have to loop through all rows in the table and set the header text for each row i.e.

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var rows = tables.CUSTOMER.rows;
while (rows.next())
{
	tables.CUSTOMER.NAME.labelText.text = "Test";
}

[LKirby]

I did try changing the column names before putting any data into the table and it only set the labels on the first table page, so when clicking on the table page number controls (1, 2, 3, etc) they would loose the labels on the columns.

So I tried setting the column names on each row and it works, thank you