Hi Lucy, I'd be excited to see how you are able to implement this. Dropdowns based on the input of other fields could be handled in the javascript and forms.py class for a given form, but I haven't had a chance to try it out. One place to start looking at is how the Farallon folks dealt with "important_dates" in the summary form. In that case, the dropdown is a composite of two domains. It may give you hint at how to get started. Good luck!
On Wednesday, January 20, 2016 at 2:03:20 AM UTC-6, Lucy FJ wrote: > > Hi Phil and all, > > I answered Phil personally on this one forgetting I had put it on the > forum. I am answering here in case it is of help to other users. > The ability to create hierarchies of concepts is a very powerful feature > in Arches and one we would have liked to use for cultural period on our > Egyptian sites inventory but our problem is that we have about 15 cultural > periods, 31+ dynasties and 188 rulers and these are only the important > ones! This would create an enormous drop down list which is confusing to > users and difficult to manipulate. I know it can be searched but the rulers > names are similar and you would need to check you had the correct dynasty > etc so for the sake of user friendliness we are going to try the separate > input fields and authority files approach. We hope to restrict the drop > down list of dynasties to those relevant to the cultural period etc. > Lucy > -- -- To post, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]. For more information, visit https://groups.google.com/d/forum/archesproject?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Arches Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
