max lengths custom option

README.md

@@ -65,6 +65,11 @@ plugins.web2admin.headers is a dictionary that maps 'tablename.fieldname' into t
 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}	
+
+plugins.web2admin.maxtextlength sets the maximum length of text to be displayed for each field value, in the grid view (default 20). This value can be overwritten for each field using plugins.web2admin.maxtextlengths, a dictionary of 'tablename.fieldname':length. If text must be truncated then an extra len('...') = 3 is substracted from the specified length.  
+
+	plugins.web2admin.maxtextlength ={'student': 10}
+	plugins.web2admin.maxtextlengths ={'test.name': 5}
 
 ### Multi-database support
 

controllers/plugin_web2admin.py

@@ -26,8 +26,9 @@ def  view_table():
                              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)
-
+                             orderby = plugins.web2admin.orderby.get(table),
+                             maxtextlength = plugins.web2admin.maxtextlength.get(table) or 20,
+                             maxtextlengths = plugins.web2admin.maxtextlengths,
     )
     return locals()
 

models/plugin_web2admin/plugin_web2admin.py

@@ -44,6 +44,8 @@ def clone_action(table, ids):
                         headers = {},
                         orderby = {},
                         left = {},
+                        maxtextlength = {},
+                        maxtextlengths = {},
 )
 plugins.web2admin.actions.update(plugins.web2admin.default_actions)