Unable to install HandsOnTable plugin

[Martti Lamberg]

I can't install HandsOnTable plugin into my app. Tried the automatic plugin installer in .../admin/default/plugins/"my_app" but it says:

unable to install plugin "web2py.plugin.HandsOnTable_plugin_for_a_spreadsheet.w2p"

Tried manually installing it too. I downloaded the "plugin_hotsheet-master-fe9652df3fa5968449ac445f406a0e6c473df37f.tar.gz" and uploaded it to the app. This time it says:

App does not exist or you are not authorized

Niice. So what to do? Can I install it by manually dropping the files to the app folder? Which files and where exactly?

[Dave S]

I'm also interested in the answer, but has anyone turned this into a Web2Py plug-in?

I suspect that you need to unzip/tar the download file, and copy the javascript files to your app's static directory.
(Speaks the person who has never tried that with any javascript, not even an autocompleter)

/dps
 

[Massimo Di Pierro]

that plugin is a little old and hands on table is evolved since. Using hands on table does not really require the plugin, it is very easy to use, and it purely client side.

[Martti Lamberg]

Okay, I'll try it without the plugin. Thanks 

[Martti Lamberg]

Okay, I can't get it to work. I did like in this tutorial: http://docs.handsontable.com/0.17.0/tutorial-quick-start.html

I embed the library directly from their server. It seems like it crashes at the var hot expression var hot statement

Here's my html file:

{{extend 'layout.html'}}


<div id="example"></div>


<script src="http://handsontable.com/dist/handsontable.full.js"></script>
<script>
    var data = [
      ["", "Ford", "Volvo", "Toyota", "Honda"],
      ["2014", 10, 11, 12, 13],
      ["2015", 20, 11, 14, 13],
      ["2016", 30, 15, 12, 13]
    ];


    var container = document.getElementById('example');
    var hot = new Handsontable(container, {
      data: data,
      minSpareRows: 1,
      rowHeaders: true,
      colHeaders: true,
      contextMenu: true
    });
</script>


<link rel="stylesheet" media="screen" href="http://handsontable.com/dist/handsontable.full.css">

[Jim S]

I cut and pasted your code into one of my views and it worked just fine as is.

-Jim

[Martti Lamberg]

I tried it on several views and apps but it didn't work, until I figured out it might be because of I'm using python anywhere. So yes, I got it to work on normal desktop web2py. That might actually be the root of my original problem.