Hi all,
My apologies for speaking too soon, whilst the approach below removed some of
the issues I had with linked collections, it also introduced others. It seems I
cannot get passed the half a solution.
Basically what I'm trying to do is make any changes to the facets associated
with the artist or artwork collections effect both the facets and views
associated with the artist and artwork collections.
I think what I'm after is interlinked collections, e.g.
<div ex:role="collection"
ex:itemTypes="Artwork"
ex:baseCollectionID="artist-collection"
ex:expression=".artwork"
id="artwork-collection"></div>
<div ex:role="collection"
ex:itemTypes="Artist"
ex:baseCollectionID="artwork-collection"
ex:expression=".artist"
id="artist-collection"></div>
Currently this is not possible as all the collections must first be created and
then initialised with the baseCollections; which does not seem to be too hard
to implement. It is also necessary to stop the infinite recursion of changes,
which for me is proving somewhat more troublesome.
Just wondering if this makes sense to those developers with a clearer view of
the code than I.
N
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Connected Collections (cool feature)
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:09:43 +0000
Hi David (and all),
I know you said that the current implementation which connects the collections
was only half a solution, generally things work fine, however in using it I
have come across two issues.
1) The count in the facets relate to the base Collection when this is not
always the most appropriate.
2) For Text Search there is no way to use the approach as you only directly
specify a collection.
However in messing about I noticed that it is possible to over come these
issues, by linking each collection to the other. For example
<div ex:role="collection" ex:itemTypes="Artwork" id="base-collection"></div>
<div ex:role="collection" ex:baseCollectionID="base-collection"
ex:expression=".artist" id="artist-collection"></div>
<div ex:role="collection" ex:baseCollectionID="artist-collection"
ex:expression=".artworks" id="artwork-collection"></div>
N
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