Change number of checkbox columns

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ururk — Fri Jan 07, 2011 8:22 am

Is it possible (with a setting) to change the number of columns displayed? I’d like to switch it to 2 columns, from three. I poked through the php files, but haven’t found where this is set. Ideally I’d not be making a core change.

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ururk — Mon Jan 10, 2011 11:07 pm

I solved this problem:

Edit line 128 (or thereabouts) in this template file:

Dataface_Form_Section_Template.html

Original:

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{if $element.field.widget.columns}{assign var=cols value=$element.field.widget.columns}{else}{assign var=cols value=3}{/if}

Change to:

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{if $element.field.widget.columns}{assign var=cols value=$element.field.widget.columns}{else}{assign var=cols value=2}{/if}

This looks to be a global change, so it might not work out if you want to target specific elements (though I’m guessing SMARTY provides the ability to target specific columns through an if statement).

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shannah — Fri Jan 14, 2011 12:59 pm

As you can tell from this snippet, another way to do this on a field by field basis would be to set the widget:columns directive in the fields.ini file:

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widget:columns=2

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ururk — Fri Jan 14, 2011 6:28 pm

shannah wrote:As you can tell from this snippet, another way to do this on a field by field basis would be to set the widget:columns directive in the fields.ini file:

Ah, I like that method much better. I’ve started to delve a bit into the templates, but have never used SMARTY before.