Vaadin 7 UI Design By Example Beginner's Guide

Collapsing and reordering columns

You can allow users to hide or show columns at runtime. All you have to do is to enable column collapsing:

    table.setColumnCollapsingAllowed(true);

That will render a little menu to play with columns' visibility as shown in the next screenshot:

If you want to disable column collapsing for a certain column, you can do something similar to the following code snippet:

    table.setColumnCollapsible("A + B", false);

Tip

You have to call table.setColumnCollapsingAllowed(true); when you want some columns to be noncollapsible. If you don't make this call, the menu showing the columns won't be rendered. You can use the setColumnCollapsed ...