YUI datatable conditional dropdown editor

Question

I'm currently editing an application which uses YUI 2.5. I haven't used it before and could use some help.

I want to be able to add a dropdown editor for a particular column's rows using datatable, but I only want it to appear if specific values appear in another column in the corresponding row.

Is it possible to add some kind of If statement in the column definitions? Would I have to use a custom formatter?

eg.

var eventColumnDefs = [
{key:"event_id", sortable:false},
{key:"event_name", sortable:true},
{key:"extended", sortable:true,  formatter: function (o) {
    if (event_name=type1||event_name=type4||event_name=type5) {
        editor:"dropdown", editorOptions:{dropdownOptions:eventData.extendedList}
            }
    }
}];

I know this code wouldn't work, by the way, I would just appreciate a bit of guidance.

Answer 1

Found a hacky solution as follows

In Column Definitions:

var eventColumnDefs = [
    {key:"player_name", sortable:true, editor:"dropdown", editorOptions:{dropdownOptions:currenteam}}
];

Then later on in initialiseTables:

eventDataTable.subscribe("cellClickEvent", function(ev) {
var target, column, field;

target = ev.target;
column = this.getColumn(target);

if (column.key === "player_name") {
field= this.getRecord(target).getData("team_id");
}
if (hometeamlistID == field) {
currenteam=hometeamlist;
} else if (awayteamlistID == field) {
currenteam=awayteamlist; 
}
eventDataTable._oColumnSet._aDefinitions[8].editorOptions.dropdownOptions = currenteam;

});

hometeamlist, awayteamlist, hometeamlistID and awayteamlistID are pulled from an XML string. I haven't included that code above, but some of it is included in my question here:

YUI 2.5. Populating a dropdown from XML