Feature Request: col/row span

[splitbrain]

It would be great if we could paste cells with row or col spans from open office and have method to create/remove them in the editor itself.

[warpech]

It is possible to do col/row merging in Handsontable, but would require a lot of rewrites and removing some of the current optimizations. Because of how much work it is, I am not planning to do it soon. But I encourage you to try doing it if you need it.

As for colspan copy-paste from Open Office. I have no idea how to do this technically. Google Docs does not support it as well. Normally, Open Office (and other spreadsheets) copy cell data as plain text with tab-separated values. But this text does not contain metadata like row span.

[splitbrain]

I see. I might have a look at it, I want to rework the table editing plugin for DokuWiki and your script's simplicity comes really close to what I'm looking for. But I will need col/row spans and reordering.

[prabhat007]

Hi splitbrain,

I also have some requirement which needs col/row merging in Handsontable. So I just want to know have you acheived this as you are working on it. Thanks in advance.

Thanks

[splitbrain]

@prabhat007 I hadn't the time to look at this. @adrianlang showed some interest but his time is limited, too. If anyone would have a business case, hiring @adrianlang might be a good idea (of course ask @warpech first).

[ronnyandre]

Did you look into this splitbrain? :)

[splitbrain]

sorry, not time unfortunately

[setthase]

We have a new policy of closing duplicate tickets. Thanks for your input, please follow #181 for this issue.