Talk:Tabular Layout (Table Extract Method)
Devon 11/12/2025
- For Step 1 on the Basic Setup section, the text starts right after the header:
- Step 1: Create the Data Elements and select the Extract Method It is assumed that you already have a Project set up in Grooper with a Content Model, Document Type, and Data Model already created in Grooper before following these instructions.
- "3. when the "Add" window appears, enter a name for your Data Column in the Name property."
- When needs to be capitalized.
Randall 11/14/2025
- Part of me wanted to say more detail was needed that described how exactly the inner workings of Grooper actually create the table, but I have come to believe more over time that people want to know how to do things in Grooper, and spend less time being told how exactly it's doing it. I think the Basic setup section does a good job walking through ... the basics of how to setup a table with Tabular Layout.
- My personal taste for brevity has come to believe that telling people to click "save" every time, or "click ok to close the window", etc, isn't necessary. I also think in a lot of cases you can get away with showing how to do something once, then telling them to repeat the process on the remaining things. For example, when configuring the header extractors, I think you could show them how to do it on one column, then tell them to do a similar thing on the remaining columns. You do so in the steps above the supademo, but then you take the time to walk them through it for each column in the supademo.
- I would say it could use a demo showing extraction results to show the setup table in action. I tend to like to show a test so people can see things working.