A summary on a column of type string has no effect, unless it is a label

[Daniel Glinka]

When are you planning to add a summary on a column of type string, to count an answer from a list?

For example: how many people answer yes or no?, like a stadistics button or so, just for the "editable" columns.

Thanks in advance.

[francis]

The answer is that it not yet supported, and not yet on the roadmap neither, but this can change :-)

We could add a property such as

col.xyz.type = string
col.xyz.summary = count
col.xyz.summary.stringcondition = (?i)yes

the format for the stringcondition would be
col.xyz.summary.stringcondition ::= <regexp>

Regexp would then be a regular expression as used in a java pattern
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html

Alternative is that you create a scripted field (using the script runner plugin of jamie elchin)
Check the example which count the number of 'Yes' in a column of type list.

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