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Table of contents
Installation.......................................................................................................................................4
How to install Tabulizer on Joomla 4.x.......................................................................................5
How to update or upgrade Tabulizer on Joomla 4.x...................................................................5
How to uninstall Tabulizer on Joomla 4.x...................................................................................5
How to install Tabulizer on Joomla 3.x.......................................................................................5
How to update or upgrade Tabulizer on Joomla 3.x...................................................................6
How to uninstall Tabulizer on Joomla 3.x...................................................................................6
How to install Tabulizer on Joomla 2.5.......................................................................................6
How to update or upgrade Tabulizer on Joomla 2.5...................................................................6
How to uninstall Tabulizer on Joomla 2.5...................................................................................6
How to Use......................................................................................................................................7
Before you start: Check your permissions!.................................................................................7
Creating a table with Tabulizer...................................................................................................9
Editing a table with ReTabulizer...............................................................................................12
Basic Concepts: What is a rule, a ruleset and a ruleset archive.....................................................13
Overview...................................................................................................................................13
What is a rule............................................................................................................................16
What is a ruleset........................................................................................................................30
What is a ruleset archive...........................................................................................................31
Preview ruleset styling..............................................................................................................32
Automatically create and edit CSS skeleton for rulesets..........................................................32
Where are the files located........................................................................................................33
Example: Creating a ruleset from scratch......................................................................................35
Setting the requirements............................................................................................................35
Creating the rules......................................................................................................................35
Defining the CSS Selectors.......................................................................................................36
Putting it all together.................................................................................................................38
Naming conventions.................................................................................................................38
Taking our example to the next level.............................................................................................39
Calculating automatically the total sum....................................................................................39
Format the cells as currency......................................................................................................39
Using Autospan for our table title.............................................................................................40
Putting it all together.................................................................................................................41
Importing ruleset archives ............................................................................................................43
Request a custom-made ruleset for you....................................................................................43
Copying tables from another application.......................................................................................45
Importing tables directly from an Excel document ..................................................................45
Exporting tables and data from an Excel document .................................................................46
Exporting tables from a Word document..................................................................................47
Data Sources for tables with dynamic content ..............................................................................48
How to create a new data source...............................................................................................48
How to insert your data sources into articles, modules or 3rd party extensions.......................50
Add more flexibility with data source variable parameters......................................................51
Convert your tables into graphs.....................................................................................................54
Create a graph ruleset – Basic Example....................................................................................55
Using more options to adjust your graph..................................................................................61
Exporting table data and graphs as files (download + email)........................................................63
Exporting table data as file........................................................................................................63