{
"id": "TD01",
"title": "Editable table",
"topic": "tables",
"use": "Change a value where it stands. Whoever adds twelve cost centers to a list of documents needs no dialog for it — the cell is the field. This takes the most frequent case off bulk editing, which stays for setting many records to one value (BE02) or going through each record in turn (BE03).",
"decisions": [
"An editable cell shows its control and the other columns are text. A click on a control edits it and does not select the row; a click beside it selects the row.",
"A change applies to the cell, never to the selection: three selected rows and one changed cell is one changed cell. Whoever means many uses the column action, which names its scope.",
"The column action asks for its scope in the dialog with up to three answers — this view, the selected rows, all rows — each only where it exists; with neither a view nor a selection there is no question. The view is preselected and spelled out in words, and All rows says it also reaches the rows the filter hides.",
"The filter exists to build the view the column action acts on, not to search. Search and filter narrow the same set and count the same for the scope.",
"The filter sits behind a button in a drawer: four filterable columns as four selects would push the search and the actions out of the toolbar. The button carries the number of filters set, the filters set stand as badges above the table, and a reset sits in the drawer's footer and beside the badges.",
"Only columns with a list of values are filterable, and the values come from the rows: a value without a match is a promise the table does not keep. Free text goes into the search; date and amount stay out, because a range filter is a pattern of its own.",
"Status has no field in the cell but an entry in the column action: in the row it is information, for many rows it is the most frequent change. Error is not offered because the check sets it; posted rows show their values as text, and setting Posted says first what no longer works.",
"Every change can be undone once, a column action over many rows included: a table that writes while typing needs a way back."
],
"try": [
{
"do": "Click into a booking text, type, and leave the field",
"then": "the row is not selected by it, and the line under the table says what changed"
},
{
"do": "Move through the table with the arrow keys and press Enter",
"then": "the focus goes into the cell's field; Escape hands it back to the grid"
},
{
"do": "Select three rows and change one cell",
"then": "exactly this cell changes, not the three"
},
{
"do": "Press Set column to one value and choose Document type",
"then": "the dialog “Set the document type for several rows” asks for the value and the scope"
},
{
"do": "Press Filter",
"then": "a drawer comes in from the right with everything that can be filtered — Document type, Cost center, Processor, Status"
},
{
"do": "Choose two of them and press Done",
"then": "the button reads Filter (2), both stand as badges above the table, and each can be removed on its own"
},
{
"do": "Select all rows, then filter",
"then": "the counter still says all 24 are selected"
},
{
"do": "Then open the column action",
"then": "the scope stands at Only this view, the view is named below it, and All rows of the table adds that it also hits the rows the filter hides"
},
{
"do": "Set a value for Only this view, then reset the filters",
"then": "the rows outside the view keep their old value"
},
{
"do": "Choose Status in the column action",
"then": "the status has no field in the cell but can be set for the column — and Posted says beforehand what no longer works afterwards"
},
{
"do": "Choose Close without changes",
"then": "a question asks before the value is discarded, and Discard value closes the dialog"
},
{
"do": "Open the column action with rows selected",
"then": "the dialog asks whether all rows or only the selected ones are meant"
},
{
"do": "Look at a posted row",
"then": "its values stand as text, not as fields"
},
{
"do": "Press Undo change",
"then": "the last step is undone as a whole, even one that changed 19 rows at once"
}
],
"revision": 1,
"changes": [],
"reviewed": true,
"source": "\n\n\n
\n \n \n Set column to one value\n \n \n \n Export\n \n \n \n \n Delete documents\n \n \n \n Filter\n \n \n\n
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\n \n Undo change\n \n
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\n Done\n Reset all filters\n \n\n
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\n Booking text\n Document type\n Cost center\n Processor\n Status\n \n
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\n The value you entered is not set in any row.\n \n\n
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