Dido seems like an excellent improvement to Exhibit. Thanks for good work, David!
A Google Spreadsheet version is of course necessary for making it work IRL, but many Exhibit are built with data sources stored in SQL- databases. A intermediate path for creating an Dido/Exhibit which can write to relational database back ends is to make a new export format, which may transform JSON to SQL like UPDATE exhibitdatasource SET field = "234" WHERE label = "123" ; If the tables are normalized, or if you want to keep track of who has authored what, a configurable JS-template may decide which UPDATE statements that correspond to which fields. Since there are really nasty security challenges concerning letting javascript write to a production server, an SQL export format may be the first step in order to develop support for writing changes in an Exhibit to a RDBMS. -- Harald Groven On 27 Jul, 02:20, David Karger <[email protected]> wrote: > You can already do so. Edit the lens and use the "add lens content" > icon () . You'll get a dropdown you can use to add fields for existing > properties, but you can also click "use advanced expression" and, in the > resulting textfield, fill in a new attribute (including the leading > period). When you go back to the display view that field will be > editable and you can assign values to it. Once you have done so you > will be able to create a facet to filter on the values you created. > > On 7/26/2010 7:17 PM, lostexpectation wrote: > > > > > is it going to be possible to add new categories of an item, sometimes > > its not about adding new items but adding new categories/facets to > > existing set of items and that would be very useful to allow general > > users to do...? > > > On Mar 1, 8:46 pm, "David R. Karger"<[email protected]> wrote: > > >> I'm happy to announce a preliminary (alpha) release of Dido, a > >> WYSIWYG-editable version of Exhibit. With Dido you can edit the data > >> you are looking at, as well as the Exhibit visualization, right inside > >> the page. Then you can save the page to persist your changes. All the > >> functionality---exhibit, data, and editor---is in the document itself, > >> so you don't even need a web connection to use it. You can find Dido > >> athttp://projects.csail.mit.edu/exhibit/Dido/ > > >> As I said, alpha. You're sure to find plenty of bugs. But I'd love > >> your feedback. > > >> -David Karger -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SIMILE Widgets" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/simile-widgets?hl=en.
