Swapping content when moving rows in tables

In Pages '06, you could grab a row on a table and drag it over another row and the content would swap. This was a very convenient way to re-order a table. In Pages '08 if you drag a row, it just replaces the destination and leaves a blank row behind. (This of course is how MS Word works, I always liked the improvement in Pages.)
Does anyone know of a way to get back to this behavior or why it was changed?

that's surprising. Try it in Pages '06. I just did. And it works as I described. And then I looked up the Pages '06 help file:
(note, if you have both versions installed, and search help, you end up in the Pages '08 help file, so you have to navigate the Pages '06 help manually.)
in the previous version, the option key did an overwrite, but the reverse is not true in this version.
Moving or copying table cells
You can move or copy one or more table cells at a time.
To move cells:
Select the cell or cells you want to move.
Drag the cell or cells to a new location in the table.
Any cells you move swap position with cells previously occupying that location in the table.
You can also replace a cell by moving a copy of another cell into it. Select the cell you want to copy, and then press the Option key while dragging the cell into the cell you want to replace.

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How to update a table of contents when the feature "update table of contents" is unavailable?

Hello folks,
I've been struggling all morning with this issue and am completely desperate.
First, some info:
- I am making a spanish versions of an english documents: everything in the original doc was then edited, including TOCs. What I got at first, was a first spanish document already filled with spanish content.
- I was not the primary creative of the document I'm workin on and am unable to get in touch with whoever that can be.
- My document is a 200 pages text only document, with 12 chapters and, at the beginning of each chapter, a specific TOC for that very chapter.
- Inside each chapter, there are only Sections and Subsections, no other style. Those are the two levels in the TOCs.
- There is also a General TOC at the beginning of the document: that one only shows the Chapter names and the page number where to locate them.
My problem:
- Somewhere along the way, from one doc to another, the TOCs stopped to update the page numbers automatically.
- Now I have sections and subsections that are shown in one page (for instance 204) but they actually are on page 135.
- When I try to update the TOCs, I stand on the TOC itself as I was told in many tutorials, but the "update table of contents" feature is unavailable, even in the main TOC at the very beginning of the doc.
It is like if I wasn't standing in the actual TOC, but there is no actual TOC anywhere that I could refer to.
What can I do? I am changing the wrong page numbers manually but, of course, that is not ideal... and it may become more and more tricky while I keep producing new documents each based on the previous one.
Any help will be much appreciated.
Warm regard from sunny Paris, France!
Sasha

You've just confused me.
My understanding of how this is set up is that either:
This is a book, and there is a master TOC that includes all book documents and a document-specific TOC in each component file, or
This is a single file and there is one master TOC that includes all sections and a section-specific TOC that includes only the individual section.
In the first case, I think you would want two TOC styles set up, one that includes the chapter heads (if I understood how you said this worked) for the for the master, and you would include all docs in the book when you generate it, and a second style for the individual chapters, with the subheadings you want to include.
In the second case, it would be similar, but instead of only one style to cover the section TOCS, I think you would need to create a unique set of pargraph styles for the headings in each section (they can all be the same format, based one section, just with unique names), and then make a TOC style for each section that includes only the styles from that section.
OK, wait a sec. I just reread what you said: "Another thing: when the numbers are "linked" and updating well, they display indide a little box. Not a text box, but a kind of little frame around the numbers. That frame makes it imposible to delete just one number: when the TOC says that Section 6.1 is in page 135, for example, you cannot delete just the 5, it deletes, not just the 3 numbers, but also the doted tab."
I think these are NOT normal TOCs created by using Layout > TOC (but you could replace them with ones that are, if you set up your styles properly and the text you want to include is appearing on the pages). Those little boxes you mention sound like cross-references, which should update automatically without any intervention at all. Unfortunately, cross-refs can be flakey, especially if they point to another document. I'd open the cross-refs panel and see if you need to recreate a bunch of links.

Deleting rows in a table T1, when last row in table T2 is deleted

I have two tables, T1 and T2. The relation of T1 to T2 is one to many.
If the last row of T2 is deleted, the correspondig record in T1 should also be deleted.
How can I implement this in the delete-trigger of T2.
Thanks
null

I have two tables, T1 and T2. The relation of T1 to T2 is one to many.
If the last row of T2 is deleted, the correspondig record in T1 should also be deleted.
How can I implement this in the delete-trigger of T2.
Thanks
null

Hide headings when no row in table

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To simplify the report, it has two columns
Client    Date Seen
Not all clients have ever been seen, and I would like the report to look something like:
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                 may 5
                 june 16
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John Smith
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Jon

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Dynamic tables collide when adding rows

Hi,
I created two dynamic tables with buttons to add/remove/move rows. When I add rows, the table collides with the other one and overlays it. How can I manage that the other table (or content) of the PDF is moved automatically further down to avoid a collision?
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Using LCD 7.1
Edited by: Martin Hornstein on Jul 2, 2008 2:52 PM

Hi,
first of all thanks for answering that quickly!
@ Gopal
Thank you. When I wrap the whole page with a subform and set it to flowed, all elements are in a chaos (but the table is flowed to the next page when reaching the end of it).Putting a subform between the two tables works!
Space between two tables:
subform (flowed)
--> subform (flowed)
>table
--> subform (position) = spacer
--> subform (flowed)
>table
@ amita
unfortunately it is not possible to check that option for allowing page breaks
Thanks to both of you!
Edited by: Martin Hornstein on Jul 4, 2008 2:35 PM
Edited by: Martin Hornstein on Jul 4, 2008 2:36 PM

Problem when rows in tables conditionalized

Hi all,
I'm really *really* hoping someone can help me with this.
I am using TCS 3, using FrameMaker integration to create Webhelp from my Frame source.
I use conditional text.
I set my conditions within FrameMaker and have Robohelp use the Frame conditional settings.
My tables are not that complicated, but in some cases, I have an entire row conditioned so that it does not appear in one stream of my output (i stream across my product releases with the same source).
I set my conditions properly in Frame but when I create the output, the Webhelp output has additional empty columns randomly placed at the right edge of my table (not across the entire table, either, just some rows show the extra empty columns). In one case, a row appears several rows below where it should have appeared.
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When working in RoboHelp you have to select the whole row rather than just the contents of the row when applying a tag.
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Jeff is your man on what to do in Fm.
See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips
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I believe the problem you are having can be simplified if you
consider this
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Put a 2 row by 2 column table on the page. Merge the two
right hand cells
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you will see
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See what I mean?
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OK...I have a document that started as single pages, and I have manually moved some to create spreads...That works fine....But, when I select the 2 pages that are spreads and choose "allow selected spread to shuffle" it separate's the pages but the content is moving?
The offset of the x and y coordinates actuallyy change?? and the object all shift...... The slug really moves out of wack......
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2) Try contacting DTP Tools to see if this is a known issue, and/or if they have a workaround.
3) If you are feeling adventurous, you can try downloading Reflective Objects and seeing if that keeps your objects where they belong. I have no idea how well it interacts with Page Control and I'd be very interested in finding out. If the results are interesting enough, it might even be worth a complementary license of Reflective Objects...

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Hello, all. I am familiar with how to detect overset contents of a text frame, namely:
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In case it helps anyone, a more detailed description is:
If there are three tables in the story, and only 2 fit on a page-sized text frame, the length property of that frame will be 2. Kind of weird, but not a problem yet.
In the same scenario, however, if the third table BEGINS on the page but spills over (creating an overset situation), the length property of that frame will be 3 -- causing the test think there is NO overset text! InDesign simply sees 3 characters in the story, and only 3 characters on that page.
When I look at the "contents" property of the story, it just reads 3 squarish characters. They're obviously some kind of special character. InDesign apparently takes the concept of "table" and just writes a placeholder character for it in the "contents" property.
Am I going to have to create some routine to loop through every cell of every table and somehow add it all up to get a proper length? How do I just test for overset-ness?
Thank you!

Actually, Harbs, I'd already just burst my own bubble by running additional tests! So I have to revise my whole set of instructions.
IGNORE EVERYTHING I WROTE ABOVE.
Here is the revised solution, based on the initial solution proposed by Dirk and then revised to work around Harbs bug discoveries. It is essentially a corrected version of Dirks line. Instead of saying:
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you would say:
app.activeDocument.stories.item(0).tables.lastItem().cells.lastItem().parent.parent.insert ionPoints.lastItem().parentTextFrames.length
That's just the short version. Here's the full code and explanation:
Summary of problem:
InDesign treats a table as a single special character, so it does not accurately report the "overflows" property of a text frame containing a table which spills beyond its margins. A text frame will show as not overflowing (i.e. myTextFrame.overflows will return false) if its final table simply begins within its margins--even if most of the table spills well beyond the text frame. So a ten-page table that starts on page one will only considered by InDesign scripting as being one character long (and therefore shown as fitting completely in first frame even when it doesn't). The solution for this, as discovered by Dirk, is to test whether the final cell of the table is in an overflow area.
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My jdev version 11.1.1.5.0
Edited by: Lovin_JV_941794 on Mar 12, 2013 2:13 AM

Hi,
can you remove the attribute
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~Abhijit

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Why does IBA not include the table of contents when exporting to PDF?

Why does IBA not include the table of contents when exporting in PDF? I can seee the TOC in iBooks Author but when I want to see what it looks like in a regular PDF, the TOC does not show up.

Strange question you ask here. Not sure why that is relevant to "why" IBA won't publish a table of contents in a PDF.
But since eyou asked, it's simple, I want to author some books in IBA and also see what they look like - completed - in PDF. Again, any suggestions as to a work around so I don't have to cut and paste back into Pages?

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DECLARE
v_sql_string varchar2(1000);
v_no_of_rows number;
BEGIN
for i in ( select table_name from all_tables )
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Usually your problem can be described with 'Who cares'. I mean, for what reason do you do this? I doubt that there's a business need to get 100 % accurate answers for this. Normally such things are used to get a picture about the growth of data.
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I also tried registering a change listener to the TreeCell’s visible property to make that control the image loading but I don’t seem to get any change events at all when I do that.
I must be missing something.

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Hi,
I'm unable to delete a row in table control.
I have defined a selection column for my table control but it is not getting value 'X' when i'm selecting a row for deletion.
Also, when I press enter, some of the columns in table control are getting initialized. I'm passing these values to the internal table along with other columns.
Please help.
Regards,
Manasee
Message was edited by: Manasee Chandorkar

hi,
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LOOP WITH CONTROL tab_control.
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ENDLOOP.
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MODULE move_data_from_table INPUT.
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int_factor-modecode = zmpets_mode-modecode.
int_factor-rangeid = zmpets_range-rangeid.
int_factor-factor = zmpets_servfacto-factor.
int_factor-chk = line.
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MODIFY int_factor INDEX tab_control-current_line.
IF sy-subrc NE 0. "data not exixting in table control . ie new data, then append it
APPEND int_factor.
CLEAR int_factor.
ENDIF.
ENDMODULE. " move_data_from_table INPUT
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MODULE user_command_9010 INPUT.
CASE sy-ucomm.
When an entry is deleted, and the entry is removed from the table
control.
    WHEN 'DELETE'.
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ENDCASE.
ENDMODULE.
FORM f_del_frm_tab_cntrl .
LOOP AT int_factor WHERE chk = 'X'.
    DELETE int_factor WHERE chk = 'X' .
    CONTINUE.
ENDLOOP.
CLEAR int_factor.
ENDFORM.
for any clarifiaction pls mail me.
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regards,
anversha.
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