On Jul 6, 2007, at 10:15 AM, David Legg wrote:

> Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
>
>>> Is it possible to give Longwell a hint in some way
>>> to make it create a hierarchical facet when appropriate?
>>>
>>
>> While we completely agree this would be a useful feature to have,
>> unfortunately, we don't have it implemented in Longwell at this  
>> time nor
>> anyone of us is planning to work on it in the near future.
>>
>>
>
> Thanks for the reply.  I suspected that would be the answer.  Luckily
> though, what has been implemented so far is a great platform for me to
> experiment with.  I may even port some of it over to Cocoon ;-)
>
> David.

I know we would be interested in seeing something for hierarchical  
facets in the DSpace realm, community/collection hiererachies.  
Departmental Organization structures retrieved from the MIT data  
warehouse, in the future, hierarchical policy structures. I could  
drum up half-a-dozen other examples in DSpace and in general... I've  
seen that there is a "date" facet thats kinda hierarchical in  
Longwell, at least its a tree structure, which might be more what  
your asking for.  Maybe its more the case that, not unlike Swing or  
SWT, that theres a need for model "viewers" of content in the AJAXian  
realm. Really, these facet viewers remind me of the whole SWT/JFace  
widgetry in Eclipse (I.E. ListViewers, CheckboxListViewers,  
TreeViewers, CheckboxTreeViewers, TableViewers, FormViewers ...) the  
list goes on and on.

Cheers,
Mark


~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Mark R. Diggory - DSpace Systems Manager
MIT Libraries, Systems and Technology Services
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Office: E25-131
Phone: (617) 253-1096


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