Has there been any discussion about ways around the data update issue? Maybe there could be a way for SMW to run the data repair/upgrade in the background? I've run into this annoyance countless times. It would be nice not to have to turn off page caching for the whole wiki.
AK On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Yaron Koren <yaro...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi John, > > That doesn't sound like a defect - regardless of what you see on the > property page, the actual semantic data (allowed values, in this case) > doesn't get updated until there's some sort of update action taken, like a > page save. > > In any case, that's not the ideal way to do it - you should instead define > an SMW "concept" that holds that query, and then use either "values from > concept" or "autocomplete on concept" in the form input (probably the > former). > > -Yaron > > On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:50 PM, John Arrowwood <j...@irie-inc.com> > wrote: > > > I have a sequence of pages that all have a common base page, "Structured > > Documents". So, for example, I have Structured Documents/Term for the > page > > that has the definition of a glossary Term. > > > > I created a property. The definition of that property includes a query > > that > > returns all of those structured documents, listing only their name > without > > the Structured Documents prefix. The idea was that the property will be > a > > dropdown on the appropriate form which shows a cleaned-up version of the > > page names. > > > > The intention is that as soon as I added a new Structured Document, the > > property would update its 'allowed' list, and the new document would > appear > > in the dropdown. > > > > In reality, I have to go to the page for that property, make a > meaningless > > change, then click Save in order for the change to be picked up. Even > > though I can go to the page, click Purge, and see the new item in the > list, > > that alone is not enough. I have to edit and save before the new item(s) > > appear in the dropdown of a form. > > > > So the defect is that even though you view the property page and see the > > list of allowed values, the form is not picking up the new list of > allowed > > values. > > > > However, the real NEED here is a way of associating a form on a page with > a > > queried list of values. Unfortunately, I have tried in vain to do that. > > If > > I put a template call in the default= part of the field definition, it > > isn't > > treated as a template, and so the user sees it as a template, not as a > list > > of values. > > > > What is the proper way of accomplishing this goal? > > > > -- > > John Arrowwood > > John (at) Irie (dash) Inc (dot) com > > John (at) Arrowwood Photography (dot) com > > John (at) Hanlons Razor (dot) com > > -- > > http://www.irie-inc.com/ > > http://arrowwood.blogspot.com/ > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > This SF.net email is sponsored by > > > > Make an app they can't live without > > Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev > > _______________________________________________ > > Semediawiki-user mailing list > > semediawiki-u...@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-user > > > > > > -- > WikiWorks · MediaWiki Consulting · http://wikiworks.com > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by > > Make an app they can't live without > Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge > http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Semediawiki-user mailing list > semediawiki-u...@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-user > -- Alex Kozak Program Assistant Creative Commons
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