From: Yury K. <kat...@gm...> - 2014-07-29 14:40:02
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> Yes, that kind of autocomplatetion might require some kind of custom Javascript solutio I'm trying to develop exactly that. For now I'm able to load the list of <option > tags for all my dropdown, but I can't figure out, how to initialize my dropdown with the current value. Yaron, what function populates forms inputs with the current values (taken from templates)? ----- Yury Katkov On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 12:44 AM, Yaron Koren <ya...@wi...> wrote: > Hi Yury, > > Oh... that's a lot of files! Yes, that kind of autocomplatetion might > require some kind of custom Javascript solution. Although, if the goal is > to have a wiki page for each of those files, another option is to just > create a page for each file automatically, with the first 2-4 of those > template fields already filled in. You could do that with the Data Transfer > extension, or a custom script; the latter might be better, given the > massive size of the data. > > -Yaron > > > On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 12:43 PM, Yury Katkov <kat...@gm...> > wrote: > >> Hi Yaron! >> >> > (First, it doesn't matter that much, but this question should probably >> have been sent to the SMW users list.) >> Sorry... I thought it requires the creation of form input or patching the >> SF, so I asked it here. >> >> Thanks for the way, but it will not work for me because: >> >> 1) we will probably have 50-100 servers >> 2) each of the servers will have lot's of files: sometimes several >> terabytes of 10M images. That's a lot. >> 3) I've used the example for the file server and it's my current need/ >> However I'm very interested in a generic API calls from withing the >> semantic form when we put some data in the form and sending the ajax call >> to an api with our current field values as the parameters. >> >> for now I will try to solve this with javascript extension that listens >> the blur() action and the REST-API that is responsible for delivering the >> information >> >> ----- >> Yury Katkov >> >> >> On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 4:09 PM, Yaron Koren <ya...@wi...> wrote: >> >>> Hi Yury, >>> >>> (First, it doesn't matter that much, but this question should probably >>> have been sent to the SMW users list.) >>> >>> You didn't explicitly say it, but I'm guessing that (a) the set of file >>> names to be autocompleted on is all the files contained in that file >>> server, and (b) this information is not stored anywhere in the wiki. >>> >>> Assuming that, I think there's a way to do this, but it takes some work, >>> and it's a hack. First, you'd need to write some web-based script, outside >>> of the wiki, that, when you go to the URL for that script, outputs a table >>> with two columns: a server name and a file name; containing the entire list >>> of all the relevant files and of course the server for each. It can be done >>> as CSV, XML or JSON, though I would think the easiest way to do it would be >>> as CSV. >>> >>> Then you should install the External Data extension, if you don't have >>> it already, and, in one page in the wiki (it can be any page), have a call >>> to #get_web_data and then #store_external_table, so that all of that data >>> gets stored as subobjects. It's important that the #store_external_table >>> call uses the same semantic properties that are used in the template. So if >>> your template has properties like "Has server" and "Has filename", the >>> #store_external_table call should look something like: >>> >>> {{#store_external_table:Server-file pair |Has server={{{server}}} |Has >>> filename={{{file}}} }} >>> >>> (The property name in the first argument doesn't matter.) >>> >>> Now, within the form, you just need to use "values dependent on" within >>> the "Filename" field. Let's say that the template is called "File >>> information", and the first two template fields are "Server" and >>> "Filename". The "Filename" field tag in the form might look like: >>> >>> {{{field|Filename|input type=text with autocomplete|values dependent >>> on=File information[Server]}}} >>> >>> ...and hopefully that will work. Who knows, stranger things have >>> happened. :) >>> >>> What makes this more of a hack is that the wiki page with the >>> #store_external_table call will need to have its data regularly refreshed >>> in order to capture any changes to the set of files. That can be done by >>> resaving the page, or calling an SMW data refresh in some way. >>> >>> -Yaron >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 5:45 AM, Yury Katkov <kat...@gm...> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Yaron, everyone! >>>> >>>> Very often I need to perform some actions while being inside the form. >>>> For example right now I have this form: >>>> http://i.imgur.com/cYNHSFN.png >>>> >>>> I need the following behavior: >>>> 1) User picks the file server from the dropdown >>>> 2) The form sends the js-query to the server and retrieves the >>>> filenames. >>>> 3) the Filename field got populated with autocompletion values - >>>> possible filenames. >>>> >>>> How do you think is possible to achieve such behavior? >>>> ----- >>>> Yury Katkov >>>> >>>> >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>> Want fast and easy access to all the code in your enterprise? 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