Collaboration Edit

Available in ZK Spreadsheet EE only

Overview

Spreadsheet can support Collaboration Edit automatically as long as two or more Spreadsheet components share a common book model with proper scope.

Here we demonstrate an example application that load a book and share it in "application" scope. That means if two users open the same book and they are both actually editing on the same book model instance. One user's edit will immediately reflect on another user's Spreadsheet.

The screenshot below is what the user, Paul, sees and he can also see another user's (John) current selection (purple box).

public class CoeditComposer extends SelectorComposer<Component> {

	private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
	
	@Wire
	private Spreadsheet ss;
	@Wire
	private Textbox userName;
	@Wire
	private Listbox availableBookList;
	
	private ListModelList<String> availableBookModel = new ListModelList<String>();

	@Listen("onSelect = #availableBookList")
	public void onBookSelect(){
		String bookName = availableBookModel.getSelection().iterator().next();
		Book book = loadBookFromAvailable(bookName);
		ss.setBook(book);
	}
	
	private Book loadBookFromAvailable(String bookname){
		Book book;
		synchronized (sharedBook){
			book = sharedBook.get(bookname);
			if(book==null){
				book = importBook(bookname);
				book.setShareScope("application");
				sharedBook.put(bookname, book);
			}
		}
		return book;
	}
...
}