From: Yaron K. <ya...@gm...> - 2010-08-17 20:57:34
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Hi, By "drilldown", I assume you mean "dropdown". I don't know if that's possible, but your question made me realize that in fact remote autocompletion can't be done easily, since right now Semantic Forms has a lot of code to enable remote autocompletion, which can't be easily copied over to SMW. So maybe the best solution is just a simple LocalSettings.php flag to disable autocompletion in Special:Ask - it's not ideal, but it's easy to implement. And you might have to wait until SMW 2.0 to get the really good Special:Ask. :) -Yaron On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Jack D. Pond <jac...@ps...> wrote: > I am one of those "thousands of properties" users. My systems are already > having significant performance issues (where SMW/SF are enabled). > > I love the idea, but is there a possibility of limiting the amount in the > drilldown (e.g., only the first 10 starting with the letters typed), and if > so, would this help performance? > > Jack D. Pond > "I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if > anything, I am the prod." -- Sir Winston Leonard Spencer > Churchill(1874-1965) > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Markus Krötzsch [mailto:ma...@se...] > > Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 6:19 AM > > To: Patrick Nagel > > Cc: sem...@li... > > Subject: Re: [SMW-devel] Adding autocompletion for printouts > > to Special:Ask > > > > On 17/08/2010 02:58, Patrick Nagel wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > On 2010-08-17 02:16, Yaron Koren wrote: > > >> Sanyam (who is cc'ed) has been working hard on his Google > > Summer of > > >> Code project, which has been about converting SMW and > > various of its > > >> extensions to use the jQuery Javascript library, and to > > generally use > > >> more Javascript. The project is basically done now, and you'll be > > >> hearing a lot more about it later, including from Sanyam. > > > > > > Great news, thanks! :) > > > > > >> For now, I > > >> just wanted to ask one question - I'm planning to start > > checking in a > > >> lot of Sanyam's code to SVN soon, and there's one change > > to Semantic > > >> MediaWiki itself that I wanted to ask about. Sanyam added > > >> autocompletion for the "additional data/printouts" textarea, which > > >> you can see here if you start typing: > > >> > > >> http://discoursedb.org/wiki/Special:Ask > > >> > > >> I just wanted to know if anyone thinks this autocompletion > > is a bad > > >> idea, or has any comments/criticisms about the specific > > look-and-feel of it. > > > > > > It looks very useful, and it will make figuring out a query > > much much > > > easier. I often found myself switching between an example page's > > > Browse properties page and Special:Ask, and copy- and pasting the > > > property names into the 'additional data to display' field. > > That is no > > > longer necessary with this functionality - big improvement > > for the user! > > > > > > I see a potential problem with Wikis that have a very large > > amount of > > > properties - Special:Ask would then load slowly, because all those > > > property names are in the page. Would it be possible to > > choose, like > > > in SF, between 'autocompletion' and 'remote > > autocompletion'? Also, the > > > dropdown does not have its own scrollbar, which looks a bit > > weird when > > > there are hundreds of properties in it - but it's not really a > > > problem, and I don't know if it would actually be better if the > > > dropdown had a scrollbar. > > > > I fully agree with Patrick: great feature (I like the way > > that the autocompletion works with a free text field), but it > > should not kill a wiki that has some thousands of properties, > > please. If it does, it should be controlled with a > > configuration option that is switched off by default. > > > > I also would like to see Special:Ask overhauled at some > > point. As great as autocompletion is, it does not really save > > the special page from being a rather bloated and complex > > interface now. 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