How to merge QTableView and QTreeView ???

**Xaleandr** · 28th December 2007, 18:16

Hello everybody,

I have a problem how to merge a QTableView and QTreeView.

Originally, I have an SQL table of type:

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| Name	| Surname	| Profession	|  Age
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| John	|  Smith	| Engineer	|  25
| Mike	|  Parrot	| Designer	 |  35
| Alex	|  Funny	| Engineer	|  45
| Alex	|  Fellow	| Designer	 |  29
| Alice	|  Young	 | Secretary	  |  20
--------------------------------------------------

-------------------------------------------------
| Name	| Surname	| Profession	|  Age
-------------------------------------------------
| John	|  Smith	| Engineer	|  25
| Mike	|  Parrot	| Designer	 |  35
| Alex	|  Funny	| Engineer	|  45
| Alex	|  Fellow	| Designer	 |  29
| Alice	|  Young	 | Secretary	  |  20
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The simplest way to represent data is to use QSqlTableModel and get a single table.

My question is, if it is possible to merge QTableView and QTreeView and represent result as a tree of tables, based by one of the fields, e.g. by "Profession":

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+---Engineer:
|	-------------------------------------------------
|	| John	|  Smith	 | engineer	|  25
|	| Alex	|  Funny	| engineer	|  45
|	-------------------------------------------------
|
+---Designer:
|	-------------------------------------------------
|	| Mike	|  Parrot	| designer	|  35
|	| Alex	|  Fellow	| designer	|  29
|	-------------------------------------------------
|
+---Secretary:
	-------------------------------------------------
	| Alice	|  Young 	| Secretary	| 20
 	-------------------------------------------------

+---Engineer:
|	-------------------------------------------------
|	| John	|  Smith	 | engineer	|  25
|	| Alex	|  Funny	| engineer	|  45
|	-------------------------------------------------
|
+---Designer:
|	-------------------------------------------------
|	| Mike	|  Parrot	| designer	|  35
|	| Alex	|  Fellow	| designer	|  29
|	-------------------------------------------------
|
+---Secretary:
	-------------------------------------------------
	| Alice	|  Young 	| Secretary	| 20
 	-------------------------------------------------

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Thanks in advance for possible hints,
Xaleandr

**marcel** · 28th December 2007, 18:47

Yes, with a multicolumn model for the QTreeView.
For an example take a look at the sources of QDirModel and the example Directory View, from the Item Views section. Another example is Interview from Qt Demos.