Re: Exhibit - Adapting facets to choose from ON THE FLY

2009-02-25 Thread David Huynh
Matthias, What you want can be done, but with some Javascript. First, add ?autoCreate=false to exhibit-api.js: script src=./exhibit-api.js?autoCreate=false/script Then give your type facet an ID div role=facet id=the-type-facet ex:expression=.type .../div Add an

Exhibit - Adapting facets to choose from ON THE FLY

2009-02-22 Thread Matthias
Hi everybody, first of all, big compliment. Exhibit is a very nice tool and provides nearly everything I need. There's only one thing missing. I would like to create a simple facet view supporting a width range of data entries. My idea was to specify a set of facets every entry has to name a

Re: Exhibit - Adapting facets to choose from ON THE FLY

2009-02-22 Thread David Karger
Matthias, your description is pretty abstract. Can you give a more concrete example of how this would be used? That might help us understand if there is a way to accomplish what you want with the current exhibit framework. For example, it is already possible to make facets collapsible and have

Re: Exhibit - Adapting facets to choose from ON THE FLY

2009-02-22 Thread Matthias
Hi David, well collapsing the facets would not be enought. Let me try to give an example. As I read in previous messages, the teacher and student example is very common, so let's give it a go again. There a two types of data entries, teacher and students. Teachers have the following