Thanks for the info, Ryan!  I appreciate your argument about the empty
facet providing the user with information, however, my boss does not agree,
and he would prefer that it disappear when empty.  :-(  Also, I selected
the empty example, because that is what I need to change.  I include an
example with data below.

I prefer not to mess with the list-facet.js file, if possible.  How can I
poll for the facet dom object?  I tried inserting an id in the div, so I
could access it with jquery, but jquery fails to pick up any content ever
(it seems to execute too early -  the console.log appears way before the
page loads).

Here is an example with data in the list facet:
http://www.hucompute.org/publikationen
And here is an example with NO data in the list facet:
http://www.hucompute.org/team/mitarbeiterinnen/publikationen-gleim?Itemid=4



On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 9:09 PM, Ryan Lee <[email protected]> wrote:

> There isn't a built in method.  Is there a reason in your example that
> facet is there?  The property doesn't appear in the data at all.
>
> There is probably a way to do this by rewriting the facet code, but it's
> not always good UI design to just hide elements, especially when an
> empty facet is useful information (that is, after successive filtering,
> it is useful to some to know that no property data exists for items that
> match the filters).  You would instead have to remember what was there
> and that it's gone if it auto-hid.
>
> You could look in Exhibit.ListFacet.prototype.update as a method to
> rewrite for your purposes; you would have to rewrite each update for
> every Facet class that pertained for it to work correctly.
>
> http://api.simile-widgets.org/exhibit/2.2.0/scripts/ui/facets/list-facet.js
>
> If you don't want to mess with Exhibit internals, you could instead
> write something that polled or watched the facet DOM for evidence that
> it was empty and hide / unhide based on that.
>
> On 11/3/11 01:34 , Paul Warner wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a facet that is empty sometimes, and when it is, I would like to
> > hide it.  I have searched this list, and found
> >
> http://groups.google.com/group/simile-widgets/browse_thread/thread/9b132e9b525e1aca/b07c5be97ba55786?hl=en&lnk=gst&q=hide+facet#b07c5be97ba55786
> >
> > But it does not seem to have the answer, or I have not understood it.  Is
> > there a way to hide an empty facet?
> >
> >
> http://www.hucompute.org/team/mitarbeiterinnen/publikationen-gleim?Itemid=4
> >
> > Notice the empty facet at the top right, "Special Note".
> >
> > Thanks for any help!!
> >
> > Regards,
> > Paul
> >
>
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