Re: D2W and non-relational insertion lists.
I won't be setting a relationship to that Person type, but want to fill in the values. I can't assume these will be set on creation either, just if the properties are null (whether on creation of entity or later when editing). My thinking is the modern approach is some sort of ajax live search on the text field, where the search is made against self.company.affiliates.fullName, but also where any of company, affiliates, etc is potentially null at this point of the search. My mind can grok how to setup something like this in the standard WO component model, but all I have to work with are derived pages from rules, and thus not sure how either the non-search approach I originally laid out (trivial) or this ajax approach is doable in the D2W world. On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:50 PM, Mark Wardle m...@wardle.org wrote: Hi Joe. I may have interpreted this incorrectly but I'll try some suggestions. I don't think your issue is a D2W problem per se. I would consider this a modelling one - if a membership is linked to a user but you want some details copied in to the membership on creation, then can't you do that as part of the setUser() setter in your membership with a check not to overwrite if there's already a value for that (those) properties. Mark -- Dr. Mark Wardle Specialist registrar, Neurology (Sent from my mobile) On 16 Feb 2011, at 05:49, Joe Little jmlit...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, I'll try to give a more specific example. I have a Membership entity with such properties as beginDate, endDate, company (relationship) and primaryContactName and primaryContactEmail. The end users want to select these last two values from a pull down list of known company.Affiliates, where Affiliates are people with name, email, etc. However, affliates move around so they want to store those values relative to one this membership whenever its created, so five years from now, those values stick. A slightly better example is Projects who have among other thing a String property of VisitingScholar or Fellow, which is just the name of an Affiliate again. In the same way, they want this name to stick with project even if that Affiliate changes companies or disappears altogether. I've done this before, but have no clue of how to do this with D2W. I want one to be able to set the value when say primaryContactName == null via a pull down of current company.Affiliates if company itself is != null, and then later, allow for just standard text field manipulation. On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 9:17 PM, David Holt programming...@me.com wrote: I'd love to help but this makes no sense to me at all. Can you be more specific? What are your entities? On 2011-02-15, at 8:49 PM, Joe Little jmlit...@gmail.com wrote: I want the certain fields (String) to take the values from a pull down from another Entity, inserting Entity.name or Entity.type for the string on selection. I don't want a relation since the choices are to be archival and not reflect what Entity.type is presently, but what it was at time of creation/edit. I was wondering how this is normally done with D2W rules. Also, I was hoping to do this on initial setting of the property only, but allow free-form editing when not null. I'm presuming pull downs like this are par for the coarse, but haven't found ready examples to point me to the right d2w keys. ___ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-dev mailing list (Webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/programmingosx%40mac.com This email sent to programming...@mac.com ___ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-dev mailing list (Webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/mark%40wardle.org This email sent to m...@wardle.org ___ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-dev mailing list (Webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: D2W and non-relational insertion lists.
You have a bit of a workflow going on in that requirement. - If property is null, provide selectable list of string values obtained from an arbitrary entity. - If property is not null allow its string value to be edited free from. In addition you will need to handle: - Do you need to be able to supply a qualifier to restrict the list of values - Do you need the ability to clear the selected value, and pick a new one from the list As such, I don't believe there is a pre-baked D2W component that will do exactly what you want. So you are probably gonna have to create a custom one, the simplest route is documented in step 7 here: http://wiki.objectstyle.org/confluence/display/WO/D2W+Rules+Reference+-+Cookbook+-+FAQ Alternately, you could subclass ERDCustomComponent. On 2011-02-16, at 1:00 PM, Joe Little wrote: I won't be setting a relationship to that Person type, but want to fill in the values. I can't assume these will be set on creation either, just if the properties are null (whether on creation of entity or later when editing). My thinking is the modern approach is some sort of ajax live search on the text field, where the search is made against self.company.affiliates.fullName, but also where any of company, affiliates, etc is potentially null at this point of the search. My mind can grok how to setup something like this in the standard WO component model, but all I have to work with are derived pages from rules, and thus not sure how either the non-search approach I originally laid out (trivial) or this ajax approach is doable in the D2W world. On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:50 PM, Mark Wardle m...@wardle.org wrote: Hi Joe. I may have interpreted this incorrectly but I'll try some suggestions. I don't think your issue is a D2W problem per se. I would consider this a modelling one - if a membership is linked to a user but you want some details copied in to the membership on creation, then can't you do that as part of the setUser() setter in your membership with a check not to overwrite if there's already a value for that (those) properties. Mark -- Dr. Mark Wardle Specialist registrar, Neurology (Sent from my mobile) On 16 Feb 2011, at 05:49, Joe Little jmlit...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, I'll try to give a more specific example. I have a Membership entity with such properties as beginDate, endDate, company (relationship) and primaryContactName and primaryContactEmail. The end users want to select these last two values from a pull down list of known company.Affiliates, where Affiliates are people with name, email, etc. However, affliates move around so they want to store those values relative to one this membership whenever its created, so five years from now, those values stick. A slightly better example is Projects who have among other thing a String property of VisitingScholar or Fellow, which is just the name of an Affiliate again. In the same way, they want this name to stick with project even if that Affiliate changes companies or disappears altogether. I've done this before, but have no clue of how to do this with D2W. I want one to be able to set the value when say primaryContactName == null via a pull down of current company.Affiliates if company itself is != null, and then later, allow for just standard text field manipulation. On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 9:17 PM, David Holt programming...@me.com wrote: I'd love to help but this makes no sense to me at all. Can you be more specific? What are your entities? On 2011-02-15, at 8:49 PM, Joe Little jmlit...@gmail.com wrote: I want the certain fields (String) to take the values from a pull down from another Entity, inserting Entity.name or Entity.type for the string on selection. I don't want a relation since the choices are to be archival and not reflect what Entity.type is presently, but what it was at time of creation/edit. I was wondering how this is normally done with D2W rules. Also, I was hoping to do this on initial setting of the property only, but allow free-form editing when not null. I'm presuming pull downs like this are par for the coarse, but haven't found ready examples to point me to the right d2w keys. ___ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-dev mailing list (Webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/programmingosx%40mac.com This email sent to programming...@mac.com ___ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-dev mailing list (Webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/mark%40wardle.org This email sent to m...@wardle.org ___ Do not post
Re: D2W and non-relational insertion lists.
Hi Joe,Ignoring the workflow issues:On the edit page you could use something like:ERDEditStringWithChoicesI modifiedERDEditStringWithChoicesso that you can use a key path as well as a dictionary or array in the rules (not thoroughly tested). You may want to cloneERDEditStringWithChoicesand customize it instead:Object choices = valueForBinding("possibleChoices"); if(choices != null) {NSMutableArray keyChoices = new NSMutableArray();// choices will be a string if you have specified a keyPath in the rulesif(choices instanceof String) { String possibleChoices=(String)d2wContext().valueForKey("possibleChoices"); if( possibleChoices!=null possibleChoices.length()0 )// get the value for the keyPath choices = (NSDictionary)valueForKeyPath(possibleChoices);}// This results in choices being a NSDictionary grabbed from the keyPath provided.// Now you can use it as if it came from the rules:if(choices instanceof NSArray) { for(Enumeration e = ((NSArray)choices).objectEnumerator(); e.hasMoreElements(); ) {NSDictionary dict = (NSDictionary)e.nextElement();String key = (String)dict.allKeys().lastObject();String value = (String)dict.objectForKey(key);keyChoices.addObject(new ERXKeyValuePair(key, ERXLocalizer.currentLocalizer().localizedStringForKeyWithDefault(value))); }} else if(choices instanceof NSDictionary) { NSArray keys = ((NSDictionary)choices).allKeys(); keys = ERXArrayUtilities.sortedArraySortedWithKey(keys, "toString"); for(Enumeration e = keys.objectEnumerator(); e.hasMoreElements(); ) {String key = (String)e.nextElement();String value = (String)((NSDictionary)choices).objectForKey(key);keyChoices.addObject(new ERXKeyValuePair(key, ERXLocalizer.currentLocalizer().localizedStringForKeyWithDefault(value))); }} _availableElements = keyChoices; }Specifying the key path should give you the flexibility to programatically create a dictionary of values you need for your popup fromcurrent company.AffiliatesAgain a simple example of a method I put in my session to illustrate: public NSDictionary writtenLanguagePreference() { NSMutableDictionary writtenLanguagePreference = new NSMutableDictionary();writtenLanguagePreference.setObjectForKey("English", "English");writtenLanguagePreference.setObjectForKey("Spanish","Spanish"); return (NSDictionary)writtenLanguagePreference; }And the associated rules:110 : (pageConfiguration = 'ZZZ' and propertyKey = 'language') = componentName = "ERDEditStringWithChoices" [com.webobjects.directtoweb.Assignment]110 : (pageConfiguration = 'ZZZ' and propertyKey = 'language') = possibleChoices = "session.writtenLanguagePreference" [com.webobjects.directtoweb.Assignment]Results in this UI:And a string stored in the database:HTH,DavidOn 2011-02-15, at 11:50 PM, Mark Wardle wrote:Hi Joe.I may have interpreted this incorrectly but I'll try some suggestions.I don't think your issue is a D2W problem per se.I would consider this a modelling one - if a membership is linked to auser but you want some details copied in to the membership oncreation, then can't you do that as part of the setUser() setter inyour membership with a check not to overwrite if there's already avalue for that (those) properties.Mark-- Dr. Mark WardleSpecialist registrar, Neurology(Sent from my mobile)On 16 Feb 2011, at 05:49, Joe Little jmlit...@gmail.com wrote:Ok, I'll try to give a more specific example.I have a Membership entity with such properties as beginDate, endDate,company (relationship) and primaryContactName and primaryContactEmail.The end users want to select these last two values from a pull downlist of known company.Affiliates, where Affiliates are people withname, email, etc.However, affliates move around so they want to store those valuesrelative to one this membership whenever its created, so five yearsfrom now, those values stick. A slightly better example is Projectswho have among other thing a String property of VisitingScholar orFellow, which is just the name of an Affiliate again. In the same way,they want this name to stick with project even if that Affiliatechanges companies or disappears altogether. I've done this before, buthave no clue of how to do this with D2W. I want one to be able to setthe value when say primaryContactName == null via a pull down ofcurrent company.Affiliates if company itself is != null, and thenlater, allow for just standard text field manipulation.On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 9:17 PM, David Holt programming...@me.com wrote:I'd love to help but this makes no sense to me at all.Can you be more specific? What are your entities?On 2011-02-15, at 8:49 PM, Joe Little jmlit...@gmail.com wrote:I want the certain fields (String) to take the values from a pull downfrom another Entity, inserting Entity.name or Entity.type for thestring on
D2W and non-relational insertion lists.
I want the certain fields (String) to take the values from a pull down from another Entity, inserting Entity.name or Entity.type for the string on selection. I don't want a relation since the choices are to be archival and not reflect what Entity.type is presently, but what it was at time of creation/edit. I was wondering how this is normally done with D2W rules. Also, I was hoping to do this on initial setting of the property only, but allow free-form editing when not null. I'm presuming pull downs like this are par for the coarse, but haven't found ready examples to point me to the right d2w keys. ___ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-dev mailing list (Webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: D2W and non-relational insertion lists.
Ok, I'll try to give a more specific example. I have a Membership entity with such properties as beginDate, endDate, company (relationship) and primaryContactName and primaryContactEmail. The end users want to select these last two values from a pull down list of known company.Affiliates, where Affiliates are people with name, email, etc. However, affliates move around so they want to store those values relative to one this membership whenever its created, so five years from now, those values stick. A slightly better example is Projects who have among other thing a String property of VisitingScholar or Fellow, which is just the name of an Affiliate again. In the same way, they want this name to stick with project even if that Affiliate changes companies or disappears altogether. I've done this before, but have no clue of how to do this with D2W. I want one to be able to set the value when say primaryContactName == null via a pull down of current company.Affiliates if company itself is != null, and then later, allow for just standard text field manipulation. On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 9:17 PM, David Holt programming...@me.com wrote: I'd love to help but this makes no sense to me at all. Can you be more specific? What are your entities? On 2011-02-15, at 8:49 PM, Joe Little jmlit...@gmail.com wrote: I want the certain fields (String) to take the values from a pull down from another Entity, inserting Entity.name or Entity.type for the string on selection. I don't want a relation since the choices are to be archival and not reflect what Entity.type is presently, but what it was at time of creation/edit. I was wondering how this is normally done with D2W rules. Also, I was hoping to do this on initial setting of the property only, but allow free-form editing when not null. I'm presuming pull downs like this are par for the coarse, but haven't found ready examples to point me to the right d2w keys. ___ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-dev mailing list (Webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/programmingosx%40mac.com This email sent to programming...@mac.com ___ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-dev mailing list (Webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: D2W and non-relational insertion lists.
Hi Joe. I may have interpreted this incorrectly but I'll try some suggestions. I don't think your issue is a D2W problem per se. I would consider this a modelling one - if a membership is linked to a user but you want some details copied in to the membership on creation, then can't you do that as part of the setUser() setter in your membership with a check not to overwrite if there's already a value for that (those) properties. Mark -- Dr. Mark Wardle Specialist registrar, Neurology (Sent from my mobile) On 16 Feb 2011, at 05:49, Joe Little jmlit...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, I'll try to give a more specific example. I have a Membership entity with such properties as beginDate, endDate, company (relationship) and primaryContactName and primaryContactEmail. The end users want to select these last two values from a pull down list of known company.Affiliates, where Affiliates are people with name, email, etc. However, affliates move around so they want to store those values relative to one this membership whenever its created, so five years from now, those values stick. A slightly better example is Projects who have among other thing a String property of VisitingScholar or Fellow, which is just the name of an Affiliate again. In the same way, they want this name to stick with project even if that Affiliate changes companies or disappears altogether. I've done this before, but have no clue of how to do this with D2W. I want one to be able to set the value when say primaryContactName == null via a pull down of current company.Affiliates if company itself is != null, and then later, allow for just standard text field manipulation. On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 9:17 PM, David Holt programming...@me.com wrote: I'd love to help but this makes no sense to me at all. Can you be more specific? What are your entities? On 2011-02-15, at 8:49 PM, Joe Little jmlit...@gmail.com wrote: I want the certain fields (String) to take the values from a pull down from another Entity, inserting Entity.name or Entity.type for the string on selection. I don't want a relation since the choices are to be archival and not reflect what Entity.type is presently, but what it was at time of creation/edit. I was wondering how this is normally done with D2W rules. Also, I was hoping to do this on initial setting of the property only, but allow free-form editing when not null. I'm presuming pull downs like this are par for the coarse, but haven't found ready examples to point me to the right d2w keys. ___ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-dev mailing list (Webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/programmingosx%40mac.com This email sent to programming...@mac.com ___ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-dev mailing list (Webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/mark%40wardle.org This email sent to m...@wardle.org ___ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-dev mailing list (Webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
