Process HTML table Format Plugin

This format plugin contains two options. One is used to convert an array into a HTML table and the other one to convert an HTML table into an array.

Converting an array into a html-table

Important: The structure of the array needs to be like this:
 
[“row_1” => [“column_1” => “value”], “row_2” => [“column_1” => “value”]]
 
Every key on the first level needs a sub-array as value. In the end, for each array from the first level one row in the table will be created. The table head is the key from the second array.

Example: For this example we will use the loop head plugin to export images with their names and ids.

We configure the loop to our preferences and in the “Format of the source value” choose “Create an array”. This array will then create the rows in the table for each loop pass.

Just to show an example of the array, let’s have a look at the debug entry when running the job.

Now we can select the “Process HTML table” format plugin as “Format of the result value” and then select “Convert an array to an HTML table” as course of action in the plugin configuration. You can also add CSS classes to the table to later access the style (e.g. when displaying the table on a website). The CSS classes are added to the table-tag

Output looks like this:

Converting a HTML table to an array

When working with tables this process is very simple. For example when you have an attribute in contentserv storing a table like this:

 
The structure of the table in HTML looks like this:

 
Now select the attribute with the “Process HTML table” format plugin in a datamap row.

 
This will give you the following output