Hi Igor,
Before I go further, let me note how refreshing it is to hear someone asking
for advice on this mailing list before creating a new SMW extension. :) It
happens more rarely than you might think.
So - Patrick is right that this would ideally be created as a new SMW result
format, and ideally a format added to the Semantic Result Formats extension.
However - it depends a lot on the complexity of your implementation, whether
such a thing is doable.
Could you give an example of the "traceability" you would like to
illustrate, as a calculation based on various properties and pages? In other
words, for a single cell in the matrix, how would it be determined whether
to put an "x" there, what color to set it to, etc.? I think that would help
a lot in trying to figure out the right approach.
-Yaron
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 10:36 PM, Patrick Nagel <m...@patrick-nagel.net>wrote:
> Hi Igor,
>
> On 2011-06-02 07:11, Igor Lobanov wrote:
> > I'm looking for a way to produce matrices out of relations between
> > arbitrary types of objects/pages in SMW. Simple example would be a
> > 'traceability matrix' between pages within such categories as 'Business
> > Requirement' and 'System Requirement'. Constructed matrix would have
> > business requirements and system requirements as row and column headers
> > respectively, while actual elements would be either emply (no
> > traceability) or flagged (traceability exists).
> >
> > Good example is provided in the Wikipedia article:
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traceability_matrix
> >
> > More complex example (one that I have in mind) would be based not on a
> > simple relationship, but on internal objects representing relationships
> > among various objects with additional scalar properties. In this case,
> > cell content would be more flexible and somehow derived from the
> > properties, e.g. color, icons, formatting, etc.
> >
> > Next, I'm able to produce such matrices using a moderately complex
> > incantation based on obscure things like arrays and loops, but it's
> > O(NxM), needs to be tailored for a particular type of matrix, and look
> > awful in general.
> >
> > I believe that general-purpose matrix/pivot style result formatter for
> > inline queries would be good for SMW. Moreover, I'd like to try to blow
> > the dust from my PHP skills and actually produce one. What I'm looking
> > for is some informed advice on how to approach this one.
> >
> > My initial idea is to create an extension that introduces a
> > {{#pivot...}} instruction that actually does underlying query and
> > formatting. Does it make sense? Or it is something that can't be built
> > outside the SMW core?
>
> That sounds indeed very useful. I'm just a user of SMW, but I think the
> best way to implement this would be as an extension similar to Semantic
> Result Formats, or even better, within that extension. It would then not
> be a separate parser function, but just an output format, that can be
> chosen via the 'format' parameter to an #ask query.
>
> Patrick.
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