Inserting Tables
You can insert tables in rich content fields. In addition, you can insert a table within a table, images and links in tables, and lists in tables.
Inserting a Table in the Web Interface
In the Web interface, do the following to insert a table:
1. Click the location where you want to insert the table.
2. Click the insert table icon
in the rich content toolbar.
3. Specify table properties.
Inserting a Table in the GUI
In the GUI, do the following to insert a table:
1. Click the location where you want to insert the table.
2. Select > > .
3. Specify table properties.
Continuous Versus Non-Continuous List Numbering
The Enable continuous list numbering option in the table properties specifies whether numbered lists that spanning table cells are continuous or noncontinuous.
• Assume that this option is selected. When you insert a numbered list into a table cell and then insert a numbered list into each remaining table cell, the table displays the following:
After you save the item, each subsequent numbered list you inserted is renumbered, continuing the numbering from the first list.
• Assume that you clear this option to specify non-continuous numbered lists in an existing table. After you save the item, the list is renumbered.
Key Considerations
• In the Web interface, table commands are available when you right-click a table. In the Firefox browser, clicking the arrows in a table allow you to manipulate the table.
• In a table, adding or removing list entries from a numbered list requires renumbering the list. In the Web interface, a numbered list is renumbered with the item is submitted. In the GUI, a numbered list is renumbered when the cursor is moved out of the table cell.
For the following specific table cell operations:
◦ Inserting cells, including rows or columns, has no impact on list numbering.
◦ Deleting cells, including rows or columns, requires list renumbering.
◦ Merging cells requires list renumbering. Lists from different cells remain individual lists after merging.
◦ Splitting cells, as if inserting cells, has no impact on list numbering.
• If rich content field information cannot be displayed properly in a table, it displays as plain text.
• You can select the entire table by selecting FormatSelect Table. Alternatively, you can use the shortcut menu or the rich content toolbar to select the entire table.
• When selecting table elements using the mouse:
◦ Selecting the contents in a cell does not select the entire cell. However, if the selection continues into an adjacent cell, both cells are selected.
◦ Pressing CTRL and then clicking anywhere inside a table cell selects this cell.
◦ Single-clicking anywhere inside a table does not select anything.
◦ Double-clicking on the first valid position in a cell or anywhere else inside the cell selects the text at the click position. However, double-clicking at the end of a cell does not select anything in the cell.
◦ Triple-clicking on the first valid position in a cell, end of a cell, or anywhere else inside the cell selects the entire cell.
• When navigating in table cells using keyboard shortcuts:
◦ If the cursor is in the first cell, pressing TAB moves the cursor to the beginning of the second cell.
◦ If the cursor is in the second cell, pressing TAB moves the cursor to the beginning of the third cell.
◦ If the cursor is in the second cell, pressing SHIFT+TAB moves the cursor to the beginning of the first cell.
◦ If the cursor is in the last cell, pressing TAB creates a new row
◦ If the cursor is in the last cell, pressing SHIFT+TAB moves the cursor to the beginning of the second-last cell.