Many thanks, Andy!
This is great and will help me dive into the customs functions topic.
Best wishes,
Anjo
On Monday, April 26, 2021 at 6:21:40 PM UTC+2
andrew...@historicengland.org.uk wrote:
> Anjo,
>
> No, you want to look at creating a custom function.
>
>
> https://arches.readthedocs.io/en/stable/creating-custom-components/#functions
>
> You write a function that will trigger when one or more associated tiles
> (card data) is saved. In your function you can then lookup or create a tile
> for another card and set it's data based on your logic.
>
> One of our public repos has some examples of functions that we wrote which
> creates or updates one tile with information from the one being saved.
>
>
> https://github.com/HistoricEngland/arches-bngpoint/blob/release/5.1.0/package/extensions/functions
>
> Andy
>
> On Monday, April 26, 2021 at 4:31:42 PM UTC+1 anjo.we...@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> Hi Andy,
>>
>> Many thanks for your reply. I have not worked on this level of
>> customization in Arches yet. Is the route to the workaround you indicate
>> based on from the Arches documentation?
>>
>> Many thanks for your help,
>> Anjo
>>
>> On Friday, April 23, 2021 at 11:56:47 AM UTC+2
>> andrew...@historicengland.org.uk wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Anjo,
>>>
>>> You currently cannot do this. We have the same low priority requirement
>>> but have progressed it. It would be quite a tough task to create a generic
>>> descriptor function given the possibly complexity of a model and how
>>> cardinality between child and parent cards could be.
>>>
>>> The work around we used was to create a "display card" and write a
>>> function that updates that card based on the specific rules of our model.
>>> The card itself is set to read-only so users cannot update it.
>>>
>>> Andy
>>>
>>> On Thursday, April 22, 2021 at 9:47:02 AM UTC+1 anjo.we...@gmail.com
>>> wrote:
>>>
Hi,
I would like to generate a composed display name using nodes from
different cards of the same resource. Is this possible? Does it require a
custom descriptor function?
Many thanks,
Anjo
>>>
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