Re: [Tiki-devel] Item link tracker field questions

[Gary Cunningham-L. <ga...@cu...>]

Hi,

Thanks for the information. I'll give it a try.

-- Gary

On 12/23/2014 11:15 PM, Louis-Philippe Huberdeau wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The item link field has an index remote option (which only works if you
> do not use that weird option to have multiple items linked).
> Essentially, it will create additional fields in your unified index
> based on the data from your other tracker's linked item. If you use the
> LIST plugin to display the information for example, you can access this
> information.
>
> Not certain on the version requirements. 11+?
>
> In Tiki 14, if you use custom smarty templates, you might be able to
> include some view of the other tracker using {service_inline} and likely
> a custom tracker item template file. This is a rather recent addition
> however, and is still mostly undocumented.
>
> --
> LP
>
> On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 1:12 AM, Gary Cunningham-Lee
> <ga...@cu... <mailto:ga...@cu...>> wrote:
>
>     Sorry, itemlist -> item link in the third line.
>
>     On 12/23/2014 1:28 PM, Gary Cunningham-Lee wrote:
>      > Hi,
>      >
>      > I have a "People" Tiki tracker with some fields such as name,
>     biography,
>      > photo, and so on. And I have some other trackers, like Workshops,
>     that
>      > get information from that tracker using the itemlist field type.
>      >
>      > Now when I add a person to the People tracker, I input the info
>     such as
>      > biography and photo. But I have have to repeat the process (not
>      > inputting this time, but selecting) when I add a Workshop. Is there a
>      > way for a People tracker field - biography, for example - to be
>      > retrieved/displayed automatically in Workshops? Now when adding
>     info in
>      > the Workshop tracker, I have an item link field that points to the
>      > biographies in the the People tracker, but I have to select the
>      > biography for that person. Can't the item link field in the Workshop
>      > tracker be configured to fetch the biography associated with the
>     person
>      > automatically? In other words, when a person is assigned to a
>     workshop,
>      > his/her other fields are retrieved as needed without more human
>     action?
>      >
>      > With more and more items being added to the tracker, it's tedious to
>      > find the matching item manually.
>      >
>      > Then the results are displayed in a wiki page. Can this be done
>     using a
>      > tracker plugin? (I guess it would need to get workshop info including
>      > the person's name from the Workshop tracker and the person's relevant
>      > info from the People tracker.)
>      >
>      > Thanks,
>      >
>      > Gary
>      >
>      > PS, Happy Holidays!
>      >
>      >
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