Re: [ppa-dev] Plugin requests/thoughts

[Karl O. P. <ko...@me...>]

On 05/09/2011 01:07:41 PM, Jehan-Guillaume (ioguix) de Rorthais wrote:
> On 09/05/2011 20:03, Jehan-Guillaume (ioguix) de Rorthais wrote:
> > On 09/05/2011 19:54, Karl O. Pinc wrote:
> >> On 05/09/2011 12:39:54 PM, Jehan-Guillaume (ioguix) de Rorthais
> wrote:
> >>> On 09/05/2011 19:29, Leonardo Sápiras wrote:
> >>>>      Hi Karl,
> >>>>
> >>>>> I'm entirely ignorant of ppa and what plugins would do
> >>>>> but wanted to write because I got a request from my users
> >>>>> that might be able to be solved with a plugin.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The request was to be able to associate hyperlinks with
> >>>>> each table appearing in the browse view that reference
> >>>>> the table's documentation.  Please let me know
> >>>>> if the plugin architecture being considered would allow
> >>>>> for such a plugin.
> >>>>
> >>>> What do you mean about "reference the table's documentation"?
> >>> Sorry,
> >>>> it's not clear for me, could you show some example?
> >>>>
> >>>> I am working in a new plugin architecture as a project by Google
> >>>> Summer of Code. My proposal can be found at
> >>>> [http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/
> >>> New_phpPgAdmin_Plugin_Architecture_GSoC_2011].
> >>>>
> >>>> In this proposal, there are some things that the new 
> architecture
> >>> will
> >>>> be able to, among them, entries in the action buttons and
> >>> navigation
> >>>> links. If I understood you well, it will able you to create a
> >>> plugin
> >>>> on this architecture. If it won't, I will need to talk to my
> >>> mentors
> >>>> first (Jehan 'ioguix', and Andreas 'ads') before add one more
> entry
> >>> in
> >>>> this project, but it would might be done after the GSoC :)
> >>>>
> >>>> Andreas and Jehan, what do you thing about it?
> >>>
> >>> I don't understand this part neither. I need a better
> understanding
> >>> before being able to answer if this plugin architecture will
> support
> >>> it
> >>> out of the box, or if it will be a future enhancement (ie, after
> the
> >>> gsoc).
> >>
> >> I have a table, say "biograph".  It has documentation available
> >> via an URL.
> >> (http://papio.biology.duke.edu/babase_system_html/
> >> ch03s01.html#BIOGRAPH)
> >> All the other tables in this database have similar documentation.
> >> When in ppa and presented with a list of all the tables in the
> >> schema (the "tables" tab after having clicked on the schema)
> >> I'd like a link (or button/whatever) to appear by each table so
> >> that the user can go read the documentation on the table.
> >>
> >> I'd like the same functionality for views as well.
> >
> > Ok, so it will be possible by adding a button amongs the actions
> and/or
> > a new entry in the browser tree under each table (let's say after
> the
> > table export one).
> >
> > These are covered by points 1 and 5 here:
> 
> actually, you can even add your link in tabs and navigation links 
> (points 2 & 4)...Just pick your favorite ones.
> 
> Or maybe you will want to create a plugin where you can set where the 
> links should appear in its conf file :)

Good news.  Thanks.

Yet another reason to get my patches into HEAD.  (And I'll be
able to run HEAD in a production environment to work out the kinks
too.)


Karl <ko...@me...>
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