Many thanks, Andy! This is great and will help me dive into the customs functions topic.
Best wishes, Anjo On Monday, April 26, 2021 at 6:21:40 PM UTC+2 [email protected] wrote: > Anjo, > > No, you want to look at creating a custom function. > > > https://arches.readthedocs.io/en/stable/creating-custom-components/#functions > > You write a function that will trigger when one or more associated tiles > (card data) is saved. In your function you can then lookup or create a tile > for another card and set it's data based on your logic. > > One of our public repos has some examples of functions that we wrote which > creates or updates one tile with information from the one being saved. > > > https://github.com/HistoricEngland/arches-bngpoint/blob/release/5.1.0/package/extensions/functions > > Andy > > On Monday, April 26, 2021 at 4:31:42 PM UTC+1 [email protected] wrote: > >> Hi Andy, >> >> Many thanks for your reply. I have not worked on this level of >> customization in Arches yet. Is the route to the workaround you indicate >> based on <Creating a Card Component> from the Arches documentation? >> >> Many thanks for your help, >> Anjo >> >> On Friday, April 23, 2021 at 11:56:47 AM UTC+2 >> [email protected] wrote: >> >>> Hi Anjo, >>> >>> You currently cannot do this. We have the same low priority requirement >>> but have progressed it. It would be quite a tough task to create a generic >>> descriptor function given the possibly complexity of a model and how >>> cardinality between child and parent cards could be. >>> >>> The work around we used was to create a "display card" and write a >>> function that updates that card based on the specific rules of our model. >>> The card itself is set to read-only so users cannot update it. >>> >>> Andy >>> >>> On Thursday, April 22, 2021 at 9:47:02 AM UTC+1 [email protected] >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I would like to generate a composed display name using nodes from >>>> different cards of the same resource. Is this possible? Does it require a >>>> custom descriptor function? >>>> >>>> Many thanks, >>>> Anjo >>>> >>> -- -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/archesproject/57f222e8-b132-4c69-adff-d51b8058500an%40googlegroups.com.
