Hi everybody! I am currently working on an extension to Semantic MediaWiki that should enable the user to edit a bunch of pages at once through a user-friendly interface as provided by Yaron Koren's Semantic Forms extension.
To demonstrate the main idea of how the GUI should look and behave like I threw together an example page: http://home.arcor.de/t.mod/multieditexample/ (I know - the code there is still pretty bad. It'll be fixed in the real extension, I promise.) Concerning the use of JavaScript: I want to let the user decide if he/she wants to use the Ajax-style Web 2.0 in-page dialog that currently pops up when clicking on the "Edit selected page" button, or - as an alternative - if he/she prefeers Web 1.5 where the button will simply trigger a HTTP POST and send the user to a special "Edit selected pages" page. Currently I'm still in the process of gathering information of how to actually implement this extension. Yaron gave me the suggestion to use the Page Object Model extension, lch on IRC pointed me to the Replace Text extension (especially interesting because it's using the job queue). Do you have any other additional suggestion where I can save some work? (Of course I'll also try to re-use as much code as possible from Yaron's Forms extension.) Besides this, I have a more specific question: Since I want to make everything as user-friendly as possible, I plan to also implement checkboxes à la popular MP3 tag editors to let the user decide which fields should acutally be overwritten when submitting a multi edit page. (See this for an example of a typical MP3 tag multi edit interface: http://www.applelinks.com/images/uploads/kirk/itunesbatch3.gif ) Therefore it would be great if my extension could automatically determine if some or all fields of the selected pages contain the exact same value. If this is the case the according value should already be pre-entered in the form field and possibly also the "overwrite-this-field" checkbox should already be ticked when a user clicks on "Edit selected pages". Otherwise the form fields should be empty of course. The question is: How to do that? Since the SFStore doesn't want extension developers to send SQL statements directly to the database (for a good reason of course) I'm looking for other ways to deal with the situation. I already though of temporarily adding unique special properties/fields to all selected pages to be able to query the number of pages with that unique property/field that have the same field content as the field of the first selected page. Something in this direction. Do you have any suggestions that are somehow better/more elegant? Thanks for any input already in advance! Hauke ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Semediawiki-devel mailing list Semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-devel
