Description hint on Table row

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#1

Hello! How to add description hint on

row?

Thanks for support!

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#2

Hi,

Unfortunately, the Table component hasn’t such functionality out of the box. But, you can use generated columns with Label components with the specified descriptions.


customerTable.addGeneratedColumn("name", entity -> {
	Label label = componentsFactory.createComponent(Label.class);
	label.setValue(entity.getName());
	label.setDescription("Custom description");
	return label;
});

Alternatively, you can use DataGrid component, which has special description provider. See this sample and documentation about setCellDescriptionProvider() and setRowDescriptionProvider() methods.

Regards,

Gleb

#3

The third option is to unwrap Table to Vaadin table and use setItemDescriptionGenerator


customerTable.unwrap(com.vaadin.ui.Table.class)
                .setItemDescriptionGenerator((source, itemId, propertyId) -> {
                    if (propertyId == null) {
                        return "Row description";
                    } else if (propertyId == NAME_COLUMN_PROPERTY_ID) {
                        return "Cell description";
                    }
                    return null;
                });

Regards,

Gleb

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