More video tutorials for our "Tablesmith" table widget May 12, 2015 16:17 7 Comments

I buyed tablesmith widget, and i have two questions:
1) Can I by default hide all the registers in the table and when the user search display the registers that seems with his search?
2) can i put a image in the table with a photo of a product listed in the table?

My regards

Hello Jorge!

Yes, you should be able to adjust the text style for the table by making changes to the related paragraph styles. Make sure that you update the style in the Paragraph Styles panel in Muse.

To demonstrate, here is a video that may help: http://musesupplyco.com/blogs/news/17680928-video-tutorials-connecting-styles-to-a-widget-in-adobe-muse

You’ll want to watch the second video, “Applying a widget to a Muse Element using Paragraph and Character Styles.”

Feel free to email me directly if the videos don’t help.

And THANK YOU for your purchase and support!

Doug
doug@musesupplyco.com

I install this widgets in Muse CC2015 and I try to format text with – tablesmith paragraph styles card – but I can’t align left the column data… the data are always centered, I’m doing something wrong?

Thanks
JDamasio

Hello Baptist!

I am happy to say that you CAN include HTML with links and images. A sample file that features a few links is included in the purchase of the widget, and for a live example of a website using the Tablesmith width and image buttons, check out this site:

https://www.maxtechedm.com/fanuc-flush-nozzles.html

Any more questions? Feel free to email me directly!

Doug
doug@musesupply.com

Hi, I have just two questions on the spreadsheet you offer, I would like to know if there was possibility of a link by each line to use your example in the video, if I click on the “apple” j ’would it be open for apples page or pop up via a light frame can be. Is this possible?
Finally I would like my spreadsheet is displayed in full width as in the video we see that it displays the first five columns.

Sorry for my English rather bad.
Thank you!

Hi Allan!

Thank you so much for taking the time to look into our Tablesmith widget, and for providing your feedback and suggestions. Your comments are encouraging!

We are CONSTANTLY working on improving our products to make them the best that they can be, given the constraints imposed by the widget design process itself. For example, in response to your two requests:

(1) We have a long list of additional functionality we plan to incorporate into the existing widget, but due to the optimal size of the widget flyout panel, we have actually run out of room to add features. The Adobe Muse team are expected to reformat the design of the widget flyout panel “soon” in an effort to better organize options. This will give third-party vendors additional “real estate” in which we can add options. Until then, we had to make some executive decisions regarding what functionality would benefit the most number of customers. That said, we HAVE created custom versions of the widget for customers with special cases, and we’d be happy to discuss that with you! I would have to check with my developers to determine what would be required to fulfill your request for targeted cell styling.

(2) When we first tested the widget, the tables would render in full glory right inside Muse — styles and all. In the very early stages of development, we had all basic functionality in one single widget, as opposed to having certain functionalities split from the main widget into smaller “widgettes,” like the Styles widgette. However, the immediate rendering of the table was deemed a “luxury” by an overwhelming majority of our testers, who were frustrated with having to wait for Muse to re-process the data and re-draw the table EVERY TIME any changes were made. Even the slightest change in a widget flyout panel causes the table to refresh, hacking painfully into designers’ production time. THEN, as we continued to add functionality and ran out of space in the main widget’s flyout panel, we decided to annex related functionality into those separate widgettes, effectively “breaking off” the final rendering steps of the table… but still leaving enough of the table visible to know things were working. This, again, was met with overwhelming approval and a cacophony of sighs of relief from the testers.

I hope some of this has helped to explain why things are as they are. If you have any additional questions or comments, feel free to post a reply! Or you can email me directly at doug@musesupplyco.com and I’ll be happy to respond.

Thanks again for your interest and support! And if you’d like additional examples of the Tablesmith widget in action, check out the product page and look for links to client projects: http://musesupplyco.com/products/tablesmith

Sincerely,

Doug

Hi,
I like your Table widget quite a bit.
However, I have chosen not to use it YET due to the following issues:

(1) The Styler widget does not allow full granular cell color selection of a table matrix across all cells.
Specifically, if I set up an 6×6 table, your Styler will NOT allow me to specify a color for R1C1 – instead, it overrides my selection and forces me to use your Styler’s default cell color. A similar problem occurs with the rest of the TOP Row as it seems to force me to use a continues shade for Cells R1C2 through R1C6.

(2) I wish your Styler was more interactive – i.e. by providing immediate visual feedback on the change I just made. The current version demands far too much time to get the table formatted the way the user needs.

I hope this help improve your VERY promising and MUCH NEEDED Muse tool!

Thanks
Allan White