Autofill - override

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#1

Can i override the AutoFill behaviour for the below scenario?

I need to appy a specific calculation before autofilling the value in destination cells.

See the attached screenshot. I want to drag the value in JUN column of first row to the columns JUL, AUG and SEP. So i will select JUN cell and drag it to the right to copy the value (40 in this case) to JUL, AUG and SEP columns.

Hoewver, if the column is AUG, i need to copy twice the value in JUN… In other words, it should copy 80 to AUG column and 40 each to JUL and SEP columns. How can i override the default Autofill behaviour?

I tried overriding in beforeAutoFill hook, but no luck. Could you please suggest a possible solution?

#2

Hey @prasanth.sivakumar

you can try with the beforeAutofil hook. You can also try to check the beforeChange hook as it is also responsible for changing the value.

#3

Aleksandra, i tried updating the value to 80 in beforeautoFill hook, however, an AutoFill event is triggered after that (as observed in afterchange) that overwite it back to 40.

onBeforeAutofill = (hotInstance, start, end, data ) => {

var pastePush= [];
var newVal = 80;

pastePush.push([myrow, hotInstance.colToProp(mycol), newVal])

hotInstance.setDataAtRowProp(pastePush, ‘customPaste’);

return true;

}

I’m thinking of overriding this in the afterChnage hook… if it is Autofill, will apply the required calculations there… Any other thoughts?

#4

If there is an afterAutofill hook, that would solve my problem (like afterpaste hook) !!!

#5

Hey @prasanth.sivakumar

there’s no afterAutofill hook. But as you wrote it should be done with the afterChange hook.

#6

It works with afterChange… but considering adding an afterAutoFill hook as a new feature… the more hooks you have, the more flexibility developers will get… Thank you

#7

agree in 100%. I’ve just added the request to our Github board https://github.com/handsontable/handsontable/issues/6135 and set a notification to update this forum topic once we get the new hook ready.

#8
#9

Hi @prasanth.sivakumar

I have good news! We’ve just released 8.0.0-beta2 that fixes the mentioned issue. We won’t be closing this ticket now. It will be closed after we release the final 8.0.0 version of Handsontable.

Here’s a full list of changes https://github.com/handsontable/handsontable/releases/tag/8.0.0-beta.2
NPM https://www.npmjs.com/package/handsontable/v/8.0.0-beta.2

All feedback’s appreciated. Thank you for your input.

#10

To inform anyone interested in the afterAutofill hook. It has been added to beta2 and stable 8.0.0 version https://github.com/handsontable/handsontable/issues/6135