added links feature

README.md

@@ -62,6 +62,9 @@ plugins.web2admin.headers is a dictionary that maps 'tablename.fieldname' into t
 
 	plugins.web2admin.headers = {'student.last_name': T('Surname')}
 
+plugins.web2admin.orderby is a dictionary that is used to set the default ordering for the table rows:
+
+	plugins.web2admin.orderby = {'student': db.student.last_name}	
 
 ### Multi-database support
 
@@ -101,3 +104,17 @@ To define a new action you must create a function that take as arguments a table
 If you want to disable the default actions or you want no actions at all (if you did not create any), you can set the plugins.web2admin.default_actions parameter to an empty dictionary.
 
 	plugins.web2admin.default_actions={} 
+
+### Custom column links
+plugins.web2admin.links is used to display new columns which can be links to other pages. The links argument must be a dictionary linking a tablename to a list of dict(header='name',body=lambda row: A(...)) where header is the header of the new column and body is a function that takes a row and returns a value. In the example, the value is a A(...) helper.
+
+	plugins.web2admin.links = {'student':[
+		dict(header=T('hello'), body=lambda row: A('click me', _href=URL('default', 'hello', args=row.id))),
+		dict(header=T('foo'), body=lambda row: A('bar', _href=URL('default', 'foo', args=row.id))),
+		]}
+                                            
+### Left join
+
+plugins.web2admin.left is an optional left join expressions used to build ...select(left=...). It has the value of a dictionary linking the table name and the join expression, for example:
+
+	plugins.web2admin.left = {'student': db.student.on(db.test.id)}

controllers/plugin_web2admin.py

@@ -12,18 +12,21 @@ def  view_table():
     form = SQLFORM.factory(Field('action', requires=IS_IN_SET(actions.keys()))) if actions else None
     grid = SQLFORM.smartgrid(w2a_db[table],args=request.args[:1],
                              fields = plugins.web2admin.fields[table] if table in plugins.web2admin.fields else None,
+                             details = check_access(table, 'w2a_read'),
                              create = check_access(table, 'w2a_create'),
                              searchable = check_access(table, 'w2a_select'),
                              editable = check_access(table, 'w2a_edit'),
                              deletable = check_access(table, 'w2a_delete'),
                              csv = check_access(table, 'w2a_export'),
+                             links = plugins.web2admin.links.get(table),
                              #left = db.student.on(db.test.id),
                              paginate = plugins.web2admin.items_per_page,
                              selectable = None if not actions else lambda ids: action_dispatch(table, ids, request.vars.action),
                              oncreate = lambda form: history_callback(table, form, 'created'),
                              onupdate = lambda form: history_callback(table, form, 'updated'),
                              ondelete = lambda table, record_id: history_callback(table, record_id, 'deleted'),
                              headers = plugins.web2admin.headers,
+                             orderby = plugins.web2admin.orderby.get(table)
 
     )
     return locals()

models/plugin_web2admin/plugin_web2admin.py

@@ -39,8 +39,10 @@ def clone_action(table, ids):
                                            'clone': clone_action},
                         actions = {},
                         fields = {},
+                        links = {},
                         dbs = (db,),
                         headers = {},
+                        orderby = {},
 )
 plugins.web2admin.actions.update(plugins.web2admin.default_actions)
 

static/plugin_web2admin/css/web2py.css

@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ fieldset {padding:16px; border-top:1px #DEDEDE solid}
 fieldset legend {text-transform:uppercase; font-weight:bold; padding:4px 16px 4px 16px; background:#f1f1f1}
 
 /* fix ie problem with menu */
+.ie-lte7 .topbar .container {z-index:2}
 
 td.w2p_fw {padding-bottom:1px}
 td.w2p_fl,td.w2p_fw,td.w2p_fc {vertical-align:top}
@@ -295,16 +296,10 @@ li.w2p_grid_breadcrumb_elem {
 .web2py_console input, .web2py_console select,
 .web2py_console a { margin: 2px; }
 
+.ie9 #w2p_query_panel {padding-bottom:2px}
 
 #wiki_page_body {
    width: 600px;
    height: auto;
    min-height: 400px;
-}
-
-/* fix some IE problems */
-
-.ie-lte7 .topbar .container {z-index:2}
-.ie-lte8 div.flash{ filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr='#222222', endColorstr='#000000', GradientType=0 ); }
-.ie-lte8 div.flash:hover {filter:alpha(opacity=25);}
-.ie9 #w2p_query_panel {padding-bottom:2px}
+}