> Yes, that kind of autocomplatetion might require some kind of custom
Javascript solutio
I'm trying to develop exactly that. For now I'm able to load the list of
<option > tags for all my dropdown, but I can't figure out, how to
initialize my dropdown with the current value. Yaron, what function
populates forms inputs with the current values (taken from templates)?
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Yury Katkov
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 12:44 AM, Yaron Koren <ya...@wikiworks.com> wrote:
> Hi Yury,
>
> Oh... that's a lot of files! Yes, that kind of autocomplatetion might
> require some kind of custom Javascript solution. Although, if the goal is
> to have a wiki page for each of those files, another option is to just
> create a page for each file automatically, with the first 2-4 of those
> template fields already filled in. You could do that with the Data Transfer
> extension, or a custom script; the latter might be better, given the
> massive size of the data.
>
> -Yaron
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 12:43 PM, Yury Katkov <katkov.ju...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Yaron!
>>
>> > (First, it doesn't matter that much, but this question should probably
>> have been sent to the SMW users list.)
>> Sorry... I thought it requires the creation of form input or patching the
>> SF, so I asked it here.
>>
>> Thanks for the way, but it will not work for me because:
>>
>> 1) we will probably have 50-100 servers
>> 2) each of the servers will have lot's of files: sometimes several
>> terabytes of 10M images. That's a lot.
>> 3) I've used the example for the file server and it's my current need/
>> However I'm very interested in a generic API calls from withing the
>> semantic form when we put some data in the form and sending the ajax call
>> to an api with our current field values as the parameters.
>>
>> for now I will try to solve this with javascript extension that listens
>> the blur() action and the REST-API that is responsible for delivering the
>> information
>>
>> -----
>> Yury Katkov
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 4:09 PM, Yaron Koren <ya...@wikiworks.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Yury,
>>>
>>> (First, it doesn't matter that much, but this question should probably
>>> have been sent to the SMW users list.)
>>>
>>> You didn't explicitly say it, but I'm guessing that (a) the set of file
>>> names to be autocompleted on is all the files contained in that file
>>> server, and (b) this information is not stored anywhere in the wiki.
>>>
>>> Assuming that, I think there's a way to do this, but it takes some work,
>>> and it's a hack. First, you'd need to write some web-based script, outside
>>> of the wiki, that, when you go to the URL for that script, outputs a table
>>> with two columns: a server name and a file name; containing the entire list
>>> of all the relevant files and of course the server for each. It can be done
>>> as CSV, XML or JSON, though I would think the easiest way to do it would be
>>> as CSV.
>>>
>>> Then you should install the External Data extension, if you don't have
>>> it already, and, in one page in the wiki (it can be any page), have a call
>>> to #get_web_data and then #store_external_table, so that all of that data
>>> gets stored as subobjects. It's important that the #store_external_table
>>> call uses the same semantic properties that are used in the template. So if
>>> your template has properties like "Has server" and "Has filename", the
>>> #store_external_table call should look something like:
>>>
>>> {{#store_external_table:Server-file pair |Has server={{{server}}} |Has
>>> filename={{{file}}} }}
>>>
>>> (The property name in the first argument doesn't matter.)
>>>
>>> Now, within the form, you just need to use "values dependent on" within
>>> the "Filename" field. Let's say that the template is called "File
>>> information", and the first two template fields are "Server" and
>>> "Filename". The "Filename" field tag in the form might look like:
>>>
>>> {{{field|Filename|input type=text with autocomplete|values dependent
>>> on=File information[Server]}}}
>>>
>>> ...and hopefully that will work. Who knows, stranger things have
>>> happened. :)
>>>
>>> What makes this more of a hack is that the wiki page with the
>>> #store_external_table call will need to have its data regularly refreshed
>>> in order to capture any changes to the set of files. That can be done by
>>> resaving the page, or calling an SMW data refresh in some way.
>>>
>>> -Yaron
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 5:45 AM, Yury Katkov <katkov.ju...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Yaron, everyone!
>>>>
>>>> Very often I need to perform some actions while being inside the form.
>>>> For example right now I have this form:
>>>> http://i.imgur.com/cYNHSFN.png
>>>>
>>>> I need the following behavior:
>>>> 1) User picks the file server from the dropdown
>>>> 2) The form sends the js-query to the server and retrieves the
>>>> filenames.
>>>> 3) the Filename field got populated with autocompletion values -
>>>> possible filenames.
>>>>
>>>> How do you think is possible to achieve such behavior?
>>>> -----
>>>> Yury Katkov
>>>>
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