SPRY DATASET + Placeholder Problem

Hi NG,
i have the problem, that on loading time the whole table exploding, because the placeholder.
I get here information to do following step, and i have done this:
<div spry:region=.......class="SpryHiddenRegion">
// css
.SpryHiddenRegion {
visibility: hidden;
width: 826px;
I have no Problem now with FireFox and with IE 8.
But with IE 7 or less.....this looks not good. The table is exploding and i find now way yet, to fix this....
You can try here:
http://www.autohaus-amaro.de/fahrzeugsuche.php?txtMarke=BMW
If there is any idea there in the whole world to fix this - please let me know ;-)
TELLO

Hi Tello,
GREAT SITE ... Good onya!
I could not replicate the problem, but with IE8 increasing in popularity it may ease your concerns somewhat.
IE8 is more (CSS) compliant than its older siblings and the problem may be seated within the CSS-area. I have noticed that you make heavy use of tables rather than divs and spans. My experience is that IE tends to behave better when not using tables.
My view, for what it is worth, you can spend a lot of time in Vollkommenheit, but if it is perfect for more than 60% of the users (and increasing), I would not worry about it. You could, as an alternative, detect the browser and if <IE8 tell the user to upgrade in order to get a better experience.
Ben
PS Good onya = Aussi slang for 'well done'.

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cellpadding='3' cellspacing='0' class='form'>
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Accessories</td>
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<td spry:sort="oem_cat_no" width='80'>OEM<br />
Cat. No.</td>
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<td spry:sort="models" width='100'>Models</td>
<td width='45'>UOM</td>
</tr>
<tr spry:repeat="dsReagCons">
<td>{dsReagCons::ddi_cat_no}</td>
<td>{dsReagCons::oem_cat_no}</td>
<td>{dsReagCons::desc}</td>
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<td>{dsReagCons::uom}</td>
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Good to have a comm expert on this. Actually I solved the
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GROUP BY in SPRY DATASET

Hi,
how can I set a GROUP BY in my Spry-Dataset? I got lots of <city> tags that sometimes contain the same city. And I dont want them all to be shown in the list only 1 time.
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DenisCGN wrote:
:-) this is where I always look at. But understand nothing :-)
It starts already here: function( ds, row, index ) where do I find ds? row? index? In the filter you showed me yesterday, it was written like that, too.
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http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/docs.html
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/articles/data_api/index.html
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/samples/
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/articles/data_set_overview/index.html
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/articles/best_practices/index.html
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/widgets/widgets.html
When i got more used to Spry and JavaScript in I got most of my knowledge by analising all functions in side of Spry, all methods and functions properties, understanding how things work, and why things work. So i can provide better solutions for problems.
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Denis
set column types to HTML, make sure you have the correct iso set for your XML and page. If you page is "iso-8859-15" make sure your XML and data is that as well. The same counts for UTF-8 and other encodings.

Results (totals) row in spry datasets

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I spent a lot of time on the problem how to get row with
result of the spry dataset.
And I found it:
Javascript code:
// This is our dataset
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var calcTotals = function() {
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</tr>
<tr spry:repeat="dsSums">
</tr>
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Using Multiple Spry datasets? - regarding Regions: DetailContainer/DetailRegion

Hi Spry experts:
I've been battling a good battle: Spry datasets and mobile app development. I'm making headway, but as is true in life, there are problems. I've professor googled for several days related to the current issue without success. I'm throwing in the towel and asking for help.
I have a jquery mobile project I am developing in dreamweaver cs 5.5. I created a Spry HTML dataset to populate 3 lists on separate pages. Each list page is populated by a single html file that contains 3 tables with different ids.
Each table has 3 rows (name, image, desc). Each list is populated using the "name" field from each table. The lists part is all working just fine.
However, when a list item is selected (clicked), it is supposed to take the user to another page (details). There are three details pages--one for each list. These pages are for the item details. Each details page uses the same basic code. Only one page works. If I switch the location of the detail pages in DW, the page that is closest to the list pages is the one that works. I know that I am doing something that is pretty plain to someone who knows Spry, but I'm lost as to what to do next. I've tried multiple fixes and read many Spry documents. A HUGE thanks in advance to anyone who knows the answer. If you need more information, please let me know.
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Here is the code for the details pages:



<div data-role="page" id="details_list1"
data-add-back-btn="true" data-theme="c">
<div data-role="header">
<h1>Details List 1</h1>
</div>
<div data-role="content">
<h2><span class="DetailContainer">
<span spry:detailregion="dsList1">{dsList1::name}</span></span></h2>
<p class="DetailColumn" align="center">
<span class="DetailContainer">
<span spry:detailregion="dsList1"
class="DetailContainer">{dsList1::image}</span></span></p>
<p class="DetailColumn"><span class="DetailContainer">
<span spry:detailregion="dsList1" class="DetailContainer">
{dsList1::desc}</span></span></p>
<span class="DetailContainer">
<span spry:detailregion="dsList1"
class="DetailContainer"><br />
</span></span><br>
<br>
</div>



<div data-role="page" id="description_list2" data-add-back-btn="true" data-theme="e">
<div data-role="header">
<h1>List 2 Details</h1>
</div>
<div data-role="content">
<h2><span class="DetailContainer">
<span spry:detailregion="dsList2">
{dsList2::sign}</span></span></h2>
<p class="DetailColumn" align="center">
<span class="DetailContainer">
<span spry:detailregion="dsList2" class="DetailContainer">
{dsList2::image}</span></span></p>
<p class="DetailColumn"><span class="DetailContainer">
<span spry:detailregion="dsList2" class="DetailContainer">
{dsList2::desc}</span></span></p>
<span class="DetailContainer"><span spry:detailregion="dsList2" class="DetailContainer"><br />
</span></span><br>
<br>
</div>



<div data-role="page" id="description_list3" data-add-back-btn="true" data-theme="e">
<div data-role="header">
<h1>List 3 Details</h1>
</div>
<div data-role="content">
<h2><span class="DetailContainer">
<span spry:detailregion="dsList3">
{dsList3::sign}</span></span></h2>
<p class="DetailColumn" align="center">
<span class="DetailContainer">
<span spry:detailregion="dsList3" class="DetailContainer">
{dsList3::image}</span></span></p>
<p class="DetailColumn"><span class="DetailContainer">
<span spry:detailregion="dsList3" class="DetailContainer">
{dsList3::desc}</span></span></p>
<span class="DetailContainer"><span spry:detailregion="dsList3" class="DetailContainer"><br />
</span></span><br>
<br>
</div>

I've been battling a good battle: Spry datasets and mobile app development.
Is this an offline app?
If not, then please post a link to your site.
Gramps

Using an .aspx file for a spry dataset

I need to pull title data and associated links from this page (
http://www.isurv.com/site/custom_scripts/rss_whats_new.aspx) on to a separate site where the info is displayed as latest news.
Whilst locally I can get this to work in I.E. no data shows in Firefox, Chrome, Safari.
If I upload the file and supports to the site I get nothing in any browser.
Question. Can I use an .aspx file as a source for my Spry dataset?
If so can some one show me an example?
here's my code:
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Another interesting possibility can be found here http://www.linecraft.com/dreamweaver-get-external-feed/extension.php. I have not tried it yet.
Gramps

Spry dataset ie9 display anomaly

I have a well-formed XML data set with 6 fields per record derived from an Excel spreadsheet which displays exactly as expected in Firefox using a Spry dataset constructed by Dreamweaver CS5..
In IE9, however, an extra blank field is inserted somewhere around every 1000 fields or so which shifts the remaining fields of that record to the right into the margin area.
This smells like a rendering bug in IE9, but if anyone has a better idea and a fix, I'd be very happy to hear from them.
The site is not quite ready to go live, so I can't yet give you a url.

Curiosity got the better of me.
I use DW CS5 and this doesn't come with the CSVdataset option, but I found SpryCSVdataset.js on the web and cobbled together appropriate syntax with some difficulty given the paucity of documentation on the subject. CSV doesn't show up as an option in the bindings panel, so it has to be done by hand.
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<script type="text/javascript">
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ERROR: Spry Dataset -vs- InContext Editing

I am having horrible luck importing ICE editable content into a Spry Dataset.
What I'm trying to achieve is something similar to the YUI Calendar Method performed by George & Pablo here: http://tv.adobe.com/#vi+f1500v1435
The easiest way is to take a web page I have set up in tables.. but you can only create Editable Regions for InContext Editing using <div>s...
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I forgot to mention one other problem
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Thickbox/jquery kills my spry dataset

I've been working with a spry dataset on a project that I've
recently added Thickbox to. Once I've added the 2 required js
script files to the header, the dataset stopped displaying any
data.I found a detailed thread about this very problem in the
forums, but all the combinations of adding an observer to my spry
dataset haven't helped at all. Here is the code of the latest
attempt - anyone see where I went wrong?

The main reason can be that Thickbox is triggered before the
dataset is
fully loaded:
You can try this:
1.- Open thickbox.js, Copy the content include in the
function attached to
"$(document).ready" (lines 14 to 16):
tb_init('a.thickbox, area.thickbox, input.thickbox');//pass
where to apply
thickbox
imgLoader = new Image();// preload image
imgLoader.src = tb_pathToImage;
2.- Comment the whole function, because we'll trigger it
using Spry
3.- Now, go to the main document where you defined the
observer:
This is your current code:
<script>
function myRegionCallback(notificationState, notifier, data)
if (notificationType == "onPreUpdate")
alert(regionID + " is starting an update!");
else if (notificationType == "onPostUpdate")
alert(regionID + " is done updating!");
</script>
<link href="css/thickbox.css" rel="stylesheet"
type="text/css" />
<script type="text/javascript">

Spry.Data.Region.addObserver("ddetail", MyRegionCallback);
</script>
4.- We can simplify things a bit; Since we are only
interested in the moment
when the region is finished, we'll replace the callback
function with an
region observer object:
<link href="css/thickbox.css" rel="stylesheet"
type="text/css" />
<script type="text/javascript">

</script>
HTH
Andres Cayon
Spain Adobe Dreamweaver User Group
http://www.dwug.es
"rlcigars" <[email protected]> escribió
en el mensaje de noticias
news:[email protected]...
> I've been working with a spry dataset on a project that
I've recently
> added
> Thickbox to. Once I've added the 2 required js script
files to the header,
> the
> dataset stopped displaying any data.I found a detailed
thread about this
> very
> problem in the forums, but all the combinations of
adding an observer to
> my
> spry dataset haven't helped at all. Here is the code of
the latest
> attempt -
> anyone see where I went wrong?
>
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0
Transitional//EN"
> "
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
> <html xmlns="
http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
> xmlns:spry="
http://ns.adobe.com/spry">
> <head>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=utf-8" />
> <title>Untitled Document</title>
> <script src="SpryAssets/xpath.js"
type="text/javascript"></script>
> <script src="SpryAssets/SpryData.js"
type="text/javascript"></script>
> <script src="scripts/jquery.js"
type="text/javascript"></script>
> <script src="scripts/thickbox.js"
type="text/javascript"></script>
> <script>
> ...
> function myRegionCallback(notificationState, notifier,
data)
> {
> if (notificationType == "onPreUpdate")
> alert(regionID + " is starting an update!");
> else if (notificationType == "onPostUpdate")
> alert(regionID + " is done updating!");
> }
>
> </script>
>
>
> <link href="css/thickbox.css" rel="stylesheet"
type="text/css" />
> <script type="text/javascript">
> 
> Spry.Data.Region.addObserver("ddetail",
MyRegionCallback);
>
> </script>
>
>
> </head>
>
> <body>
> <div id="ddetail" spry:region="dsCalendar">
> <table width="982">
> <tr>
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align="left">Company</div></th>
> <th width="140"><div
align="left">Appointment Date</div></th>
> <th width="127"><div
align="left">Appointment Time</div></th>
> <th width="153"><div
align="left">Number</div></th>
> <th width="70"><div align="left">Caller
ID</div></th>
> <th width="108"><div align="left">Last
Called</div></th>
> <th>edit</th>
> </tr>
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> <td>{clid}</td>
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href="DNUsingledetail.php?id={id}">edit</a></td>
> </tr>
> </table>
> </div>
>

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Hi all
I have a spry dataset set up reading a .xml file for the price/name/description/etc. I want to only show some of the text (a certain number of characters) at the start then give the visitor the option of clicking a toggle button to see more of the description and help with size of the pages. How do i do that exactly?
I know I have to probably implement jquery toggle but how does it work with a spry?
here is the code as it stands.
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Thanks in Advance

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I have a website for a community festival. I'm using a spry dataset for the festival events http://www.horizonfest.co.uk/programme/events.html . Visitors click on an event in the left hand column and it appears on the right.
The festival programme is on this page: http://www.horizonfest.co.uk/programme/sitemap.html . If you scroll down to for example the evening event on 16 July, it will take you to the events page (first link above). My clients would like it to open the event for 16 July on the events page (and similarly for any event). At the moment visitors have to scroll down and open the event themselves.
I have tried putting an anchor in the 16 July data item. I am not surprised it doesn't work because the anchor is effectively on a different page.
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Thank you
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