Dynamic table solution using an embedded view

Instead of hard coding a table when you are not sure how many rows you need you can create an embedded view with response documents to act as rows.

We've all had a situation where we need a dynamic table inside of a document. We just don't know how many rows are needed. So we pick a good number that will work for most situations and create a hard coded table. Another method is having the one edit row at the top of a table and moving that row into a table. It works great if the text in the rows does not wrap, or if you have no need to access specific data in a particular row.

A good example of this is a requisition or a purchase order:

Now the user can create as many rows as needed and scroll through them. You can add totals to the view as well. The user can double click on any item to open the row and change the values and save it.

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ou want to make it really slick, create the view and allow 'Inviewedit'. Then the users can edit the rows inside the embedded view object just as they would a table. The users will always deal with one document not realizing that all the rows are response documents.

I just wanted to write to say that this is a very very elegant solution and by far the simplest and most flexible I have ever seen in the many articles I've read on the web regarding this topic.
—Stephane S.

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