Rob Nelson wrote:
> I have a question about collections and views in Exhibit that I was
> hoping someone there could help me with. I'd like to have different
> views use different collections. I'm using exhibit to display film
> exhibition information, and I have a number of items: screening, films,
> venues, runs (of films) etc. Right now I'm setting my root collection
> to screenings, which produces a number of views of that data I'm looking
> for. What I'd like to do is to switch collections for some of the
> views, e.g. a map view which would use film items rather than screenings
> to map nation of production for those films. I was hoping that
> collections would work like lenses and I could do something like the
> following:
>
> <div
> ex:role="view"
> ex:viewClass="Map"
> ex:latlng=".prod_nation.ll"
> ex:colorKey=".venue_id.label">
> <div ex:role="collection" ex:itemTypes="film"></div>
> </div>
>
> That didn't work. Any help or suggestions you could provide would be
> much appreciated.
>
Hi Rob,
You need to define collections outside the views and give them IDs, e.g.,
<div ex:role="collection" ex:itemTypes="film" id="the-films"></div>
Then you can link the views to the collections through those IDs
<div ex:role="view"
ex:collectionID="the-films"
...></div>
You can also link the facets to the collections in the same way. Note
that a facet only affects the collection that it's linked to.
Cheers,
David
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