Variable number of rows in Data View template

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#1

I want to show the following info in a Data View template

Hotel Name
Hotel Category
Star Rating

Room Types…Board Basis
Single…Room Only
Double en-suite…Continental Breakfast
etc

The problem is that I don’t have a fixed number of rows in each record for the Room Types. Is there any way of telling the template that a particular section must be repeated if the same variables are available more than once?

Thanks

#2

You may set template using function. In the case you may vary the number rows:

dhtmlxDataView/samples/02_templates/02_js.html

#3

Alexandra I have looked at the sample. Please can you tell me what is the ‘obj’ that is passed to the function?

Thanks

#4

obj is a data object which a template is called for

#5

Alexandra, please can you tell me how can I create this object? Currently I have an Ajax call which gives me a very large XML. I then extract what I want out of it and then call ‘dv.add’ to create each block and use an html template to format it.

In this situation how can I create object?

Thanks

Purvez

P.S. Please could somebody look at my Ajax problem in that section as that is more urgent. Thanks

#6

The template function is called for each data object automatically when the item is rendered. This object is the hash of item properties.

For example if xml is:

<data> <item id="1"> <title>title 1</title> <author>author 1</author> </item> <item id="2"> <title>title 2</title> <author>author 2</author> </item> <data>

template will be called 2 times:

  1. parameter will be {id:1,title:“title 1”,author:“author 1”}
  2. parameter will be {id:2,title:“title 2”,author:“author 2”}