Expandable/Collapsible Tables

[Akexis]

Or divs.

Or anything that might work.

I've taken a look around, but generally most forum threads discussing anything table related often refers to Calc and I specifically want this usability in Writer. I have Subjects(Headers) that have relevant data below them, but some have God awful amounts of info and it would be nice to only look at it if I need it.

I just had a thought however... I started to wonder if Open Office does scripting and it looks like it does, at least for Javascript. Haven't found any other languages. I'm going to try and cook up a script and if I manage it I'll post it in case anyone else ever needs this, but in the mean time, if anyone has a simple solution that's already built into the API I'd love to hear it.

I don't mind cracking my scripting knuckles on occasion but I've got a ton of other stuff I'm doing so if I can save the time that would be ideal. (Ah, daydreaming about an ideal world...)

[floris_v]

Better first check that hiding table rows is supported - I have a hunch that it isn't. Note that just because you can write code in JavaScript doesn't mean that OOo's file format is a variant of HTML with CSS. It isn't.
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[Akexis]

I've read about how that might be possible in Calc and you can import a table as an OLE object into Writer - but I don't want to have a separate doc for this. I'd rather just deal with the long document.

Thanks for the note about it not being regular Javascript. I've done scripting for PDFs in the past which have their own functions and classes and -assumed- it would be a similar case with OpenOffice. Which is why hunting out writing a script is going to take time. With an html document it'd take about five minutes.

I appreciate the speedy feedback.

[JohnV]