great, thanks David - that helped a lot.
on a related matter, is there a way i can define the size of the
popup? because i'm including graphs in the popup bubble, they are
often larger than the default size of the popup and hence i have to
scroll to see them...
cheers,
Yee.
On 20 Jul 2007, at 18:57, David Huynh wrote:
> Yee-Ting Li wrote:
>> Hi David,
>>
>> thanks for the reply. i'm not too fussed about duplicating data at
>> the moment, so your first suggestion is a good one. once we get to a
>> production system for our exhibit'd data, then we will consider using
>> version 2... unless there are features in version 2 which may be
>> useful to us now... ;)
>>
>> unfortunately, due to the security sensitive nature of the data we
>> are presenting, we can not provide you a url of our exhibit. :(
>>
>> One feature of exhibit that i do like is the popup lenses that work
>> on the thumbnail views. is there a way i can make this work on the
>> Tabular view? ie if we click on a particular cell, then it will bring
>> up a bubble of other data. i've tried just copy and pasting the
>> relevant code into the Exhibit.TabularView for a ex:role="exhibit-
>> lens", but it doesn't work :(
>>
> What you need to do is declare the value type of the property (in that
> column) to be "item". So you data file will look something like this,
> if, say, your data is about products and manufacturers:
>
> {
> items: [
> { "label": "Segway",
> "type" : "Product",
> "manufactured-by" : "Segway Inc.",
> "sold-at" : "Walmart"
> },
> { "label": "Segway Inc.",
> "type": "Company"
> },
> { "label": "Walmart",
> "type": "Company"
> }
> ],
> properties: {
> "manufactured-by" : {
> valueType: "item"
> },
> "sold-at" : {
> valueType: "item"
> }
> }
> }
>
>> also i'm not completely sure of the syntax of the lens reference:
>> does the <span ex:content="value".> always create a link to the popup
>> of the definition <div ex:role="exhibit-lens">? what if i want more
>> than one type of popup on the same page?
>>
> Many lens templates can be defined for different item types, e.g.,
>
> <div ex:role="exhibit-lens" ex:itemTypes="Product"> ... </div>
>
> <div ex:role="exhibit-lens" ex:itemTypes="Company"> ... </div>
>
> Version 2.0 will be more flexible.
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> David
>
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