Hi Christian.
My idea is to (simply) get some information from a database table and make
it available in a dropdown list, with autocompletion.
The problem is that I want to use this to allow the users to, for example,
pick the document authors from the repeatable author submission field. AFAIK
the whole system in which the submission forms are generated makes this very
difficult... at least my attempts always hit dead ends.
Thanks,
rg.
On 7/20/07, Christian Voelker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello,
Am 20.07.2007 um 17:47 schrieb Rui Gamito:
> Has anyone had any success (or even tried) using AjaxTags (http://
> ajaxtags.sourceforge.net/) with DSpace?
Not me, but I find your idea rather interesting.
I guess you are talking about the current JSP User Interface.
I have had a similar thought regarding a more generalized
way to apply style sheets. My idea was to make the interface
compatible with YAML for that purpose. But this still leaves
all kind of interactive behaviour possible by javascript as
rudimentary as it is now (kind of old-fashioned one could
call it). There your proposal comes in handy. Yesterday,
I put a note like this in the comments to
<http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/Talk:WebApplicationFrameworks>
Which are the kinds of behaviour you want to add? Is there
a mockup or do you have just some sample pages you like and
you could comment (like look at http://xyz.com and see how
they format tables in a nice way, we could apply that to
the item view page or something like that)? I dont have
compiled such a list for the things I would like to see
changed, but I will undoubtedly create something like that
on my way.
The things that come to my mind when it comes to Ajax are
a kind of watchlist to keep items for revisit and further
investigation; a comparison view for two or more items and
a neat tabbed interface to break down loads of metadata
per object or configurable "show only these fields" kind
of thing. It could also be of use for commenting stuff.
But seems to be all a lot of work.
Do you have already some idea of how much work this will be?
I think it will be quite a lot. Do you think it makes sense
to put work into the jsp stuff if manakin is going to take
over soon? I think so, because the experience gathered will
help. On the other hand, with manakin, you probably dont
touch Java code to do this, but XSLT transformers only.
Are you sure that AjaxTags is the right choice? Are there
other options that you investigated? I havent done it yet
for my idea, but it is rather fresh -from this week-, so
I am open to any suggestions. What is available out there
as a proven CSS layout framework that is cross browser
compatible besides YAML? Regarding Ajax and JavaScript,
I know even less about this compared to CSS, so now hints
for you, sorry.
I will be rather slow with this as I am working on our
Repository less then a day per week, so it might take
weeks before I come back to this issue. Let it keep in
mind and update each other and the list about progress
being made.
Bye, Christian
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