q-table rows drag and drop

[chyde90]

I once tried it with q-table without success and would like to know if it’s possible, too.

My plan-b was to use a standard <table> and https://www.npmjs.com/package/vuedraggable to wrap the <tr> elements.
That was before Quasar v1, so nowadays I would use QMarkupTable.

But it would be nicer to be able to use it in a QTable, of course.

I’m not saying it is impossible - I just gave up quickly…

[chyde90]

I just tried again and I still can’t do it. I think I have an explanation why it doesn’t work… Let me show you my approach:

As a starting point I looked at the example at: https://quasar.dev/vue-components/table#Body-slots

<q-table ... >
   <template v-slot:body="props">
      <q-tr :props="props">
         <q-td key="name" :props="props"> ...  </q-td>
         ...
      </q-tr>
   </template>
</q-table>

So I thought I could just replace the <q-tr> with the <draggable> tag from the Drag&Drop-library and configure it to render as a <q-tr>. Like this:

<q-table ... >
   <template v-slot:body="props">
      <draggable
        :props="props"
        tag="q-tr"
        ...>
         <q-td key="name" :props="props"> ... </q-td>
         ...
      </draggable>
   </template>
</q-table>

Now here is why this won’t work:
The <q-tr> and the body-slot don’t correspond to the <tr> and <tbody> elements that are rendered in the DOM in the end.
The drag-functionality actually gets attached to the cells instead of the rows!

The only way I see that this could work is if we somehow can render the individual rows (the actual <tr> elements) with a v-for by ourself.

[coopersamuel]

This is a bummer - any thoughts on this from the quasar folks?

[lucasfernog]

What about the @chyde90 code but with QMarkupTable?

[coopersamuel]

I need the features of QTable

[chyde90]

There is a way, but it requires some work…
The library I like to use for drag & drop (vuedraggable) is actually just a wrapper for Sortable.js to make it work with vue.js.
You could simply use Sortable.js (or something similar) and make it work with vue.js in your own way.

<q-table
    ...
    id="myTable"
>

import Sortable from "sortablejs";

mounted() {
   const element = document.querySelector("#myTable tbody"); // grab the element containing the <tr> elements
   const sortable = Sortable.create(element, {
      onEnd(event) { // gets called when dragging ended
         // Sortable.js only swaps the elements in the DOM,
         // so we need to swap the elements in the table data using the indexes (event.oldIndex and event.newIndex) or probably better by using ids if you have pagination
      }
   });
}

And then you also need to somehow notify Sortable.js when your data changes (after sorting, on pagination, etc.).
I don’t see an update() or refresh() function in the documentation, so you might have to call destroy() and re-initialize Sortable again every time, but idk.

… something like that.

[mesqueeb]

I recently found this very promising vue library to add drag and drop functionality:
https://github.com/kutlugsahin/smooth-dnd

It seems very easy and powerful.
Just throwing it out here.

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[mecjos]

@mesqueeb is it usable with qtable??