Question

I am trying to move a tool we have implemented using Excel into Twiki. Basically it is a skills matrix (and yes I've seen the skills matrix plugin, but it doesn't meet our needs).

I have no problem setting it all up using forms and formatted search (in theory anyway!), however because we have a lot people and a lot of skills to present, I'd like to keep the columns to a single character width - the only way I can do this (that I can think of) is to do what we've done in Excel, by rotating the person header row 90 degrees. Is there any way I can do this in TWiki? Or anything other great suggestions!

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-- JaneGianoutsos - 12 May 2008

Answer

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HTML, thus TWiki does not support text rotation. As a workaround you could display characters on top of each other

There is probably a SpreadSheetPlugin formula you can use to inject a %BR% between characters. If you use a CALC in a SEARCH format you need to delay the CALC to fire off with each search hit. Do that with a format="... $percntCALC{...}$percnt ..."

-- PeterThoeny - 13 May 2008

I don't know if Firefox supports it yet, but IE supports a CSS implementation of vertical text: http://www.ssi-developer.net/css/vertical-text.shtml

-- SeanCMorgan - 13 May 2008

-- FranzJosefGigler - 13 May 2008

Closing this question after more than 30 days of inactivity. Please feel free to re-open if necessary.

-- PeterThoeny - 23 Jul 2008