Hi Nathan,
In the presidents example
http://simile.mit.edu/exhibit/examples/presidents/presidents-2.html
everything except for presidents is filtered out because of this line
<div ex:role="collection" ex:itemTypes="President"></div>
What that line does is to set the default collection of items to shown
to just items of type President. Could you try something similar in your
example?
(If your exhibit will be public, I'd love to take a peek.)
Cheers,
David
Nathan Piazza wrote:
> First of all, I want to congratulate and thank you all for starting
> such a interesting and useful project. I am presenting your work (and
> my use of it) to the PhD Colloquium in Digital Media at Georgia Tech
> in two weeks as an example of how to do philology in the age of JSON.
> My project is an Exhibit-driven website showing the relationships
> between works, scholars, and concepts in the Phenomenological tradition.
>
> While cobbling my Exhibit together, however, I've run into a couple of
> snags, and I was wondering if you could help me out. I may be missing
> something, and even if I'm not, I'd love suggestions for work-arounds,
> etc.
>
> Basically, I am looking for a way to filter data in the List View by
> type (or using an arbitrary expression). I see how to use lenses to
> change look and feel by type, using the "ex:itemTypes" att. I see how
> to enable users to filter using facets. But that's not what I want.
> What I want is, within a certain view, items of type N never appear
> under any facet conditions.
>
> I first ran into this problem while trying to use proxies in
> conjunction with the Timeline. I was basically copying the Presidents
> example, except in my version, I was using both the timeline view AND
> the list view. I couldn't find a way to keep my proxy items out of my
> list view, so I had to bag proxy items altogether.
>
> Thus, I started searching through the code for a general way to filter
> such "utility" items out of views, and I didn't find anything. I
> thought of the possibility of "dummy" facets with "display:none" whose
> sole purpose was to deploy an invisible filter. The problem with that
> is that such a facet would affect ALL views, and you can't dictate
> what controls in the facet are clicked by default anyway (which would
> be another useful feature to add). Of course, this would solve more
> than just proxy item problem. One can easily imagine "support" items
> whose sole reason for existing is to appear only when a user clicks on
> a link within another "primary" object listing. For example, a list of
> authors in which books never appear in the listing under any
> conditions except as a lens view that pops up in a bubble.
>
> Anyway, I hope this explanation makes sense. Thanks in advance for
> your help, and thanks again for your work on such a terrfic project.
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
>
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