Making part of the table read-only

[gueyenono]

I was wondering if there was a way to make part of an excelTable read-only (e.g. a cell, several specific cells, a row, a column...). The excelTable() function has the editable argument, which makes the entire table editable or not.

Thank you

[daeyoonlee]

It is possible with updateTable.

    updateTable <- "function(instance, td, col, row, value, label, cellName) {
    
      var header = instance.jexcel.getHeader (col);
      
      if (header == 'Your header name') {
        td.classList.add ('readonly') ;
      }
    }


    excelTable(
      data = df,
      updateTable = htmlwidgets::JS(updateTable)
    )

[gueyenono]

Okay, so you need to do it with JavaScript. I'll try it out then close the comment once it works.
Thank you so much!

[Swechhya]

@gueyenono Thanks you for the question. This could be a functionality that we could add it the future releases. I'll label this as a feature request.

[mos790]

@daeyoonlee is it possible to freeze (readonly), 2 or more variables ? Thanks

[mos790]

@daeyoonlee is it possible to freeze (readonly), 2 or more variables ? Thanks

I'm not really comfortable with JS, but this work.

updateTable = "function(instance, td, col, row, value, label, cellName) {
      var header = instance.jexcel.getHeader(col);
      if (header != 'Availability') {
        td.classList.add('readonly') ;
      } 
    }"


data = data.frame(Model = c('Mazda', 'Pegeout', 'Honda Fit', 'Honda CRV'),
                  Date=c('2006-01-01', '2005-01-01','2004-01-01', '2003-01-01' ),
                  Availability = c(TRUE, FALSE, TRUE, TRUE))


columns = data.frame(title=c('Model', 'Date', 'Availability'),
                     width= c(500, 500, 300),
                     type=c('text', 'calendar', 'checkbox'))

excelTable(data=data, columns = columns, updateTable = htmlwidgets::JS(updateTable))

[Ljupch0]

@mostafa790 works well, but then you get the greyed out look, not very readable. I have a situation of two reference columns and one column to be edited based on the values in the reference columns.

[zhangjunjiang]

@mostafa790
hello
I change your code into

my_col=c("Model","Date")
updateTable = "function(instance, td, col, row, value, label, cellName) {
      var header = instance.jexcel.getHeader(col);
      if (header %in% my_col) {
         td.classList.add('readonly') ;
      } 
   }"

But this doesn't seem work.
I'm don't know anything about JS.
Can you fix this?

[mos790]

hello @zhangjunjiang ,
Sorry for my late message.

You cant combine R and JS code, try to remplace header %in% my_col by !(header in my_col)

Good luck :)

[sbihorel]

Hi

Thanks to @Swechhya for publishing this package and for all users who responded to this thread. @mostafa790 provided a workaround for rendering columns read-only. I was wondering if there was a similar mechanisms for rendering rows read-only.

More specifically, is there a way to make rows stored in reactive variables read only?

Thanks in advance