Column's template option has no effect?

[T-E-D]

I've been trying to use the template option for a column so that a product name can link to another page, though I've been unable to get the template option to have any effect on the table.

columns: {
    _id: {
    name: "Id",
    template: "<a href='/some/url/{{_id}}'>Go to details</a>"
  },

I tried to recreate the example code (as above) directly to create a details link and that also causes no change in the table. I was just wondering if this feature's implementation is complete or if I should write my own little piece of javascript to add links within td tags?

[RobertoPrevato]

Hi @T-E-D , I think you are referring to the documentation of the previous version of the library (jQuery-KingTable); the new library is different in many ways.

The new way to define custom HTML for a column is to use an html property, defined as a function that receives an item of the table in input and must return an HTML fragment.

    html: function (item) { 
       return `<a href="/some/url/${item._id}">Go to details</a>`; 
    },

The piece of source code that is handling this parameter, is here: https://github.com/RobertoPrevato/KingTable/blob/master/source/code/scripts/tables/kingtable.html.builder.js at line 218.

When using this feature, it is your responsibility to escape unsafe strings, when necessary.

I hope this helps, if it works please close this issue, otherwise let me know.

[T-E-D]

awesome, thanks for the fast reply. I need to have a look through the source code, I've been working from the minified version and using the wiki pages for documentation. (which is where i got that code from: https://github.com/RobertoPrevato/KingTable/wiki/Common-tasks)

Thanks again.

[RobertoPrevato]

Thanks for the heads up, I did a mistake not updating that piece of documentation - I will fix it. Unfortunately I am not dedicating so much time to this library, because it is something I did for passion, and I am active in many other things (Azure, Docker images, for example the last JavaScript library I published, for form validation, https://github.com/RobertoPrevato/DataEntry).

If I had more free time, I would definitely work more on it! :)