What is the level of effort to write a new view? I will be more than happy to contribute to this framework with that aggregated view if possible. Any tutorials or demos to write a new view? If not, if you have time I can put some effort in documenting a wiki to write a custom View too. please let me know.
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 10:19 AM, David Karger <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't see an easy way to do what you want. Exhibit is focused primarily > on showing _collections_ and does not in itself provide powerful operators > for computing aggregate functions. > > Two things hint at the kind of functionality you'd like. Exhibit does > have an "expression language" that can be used to aggregate values _inside > a lens_, so for example to sum the lengths of all a presidents' terms of > office in http://trunk.simile-widgets.**org/exhibit/examples/** > presidents/presidents.html<http://trunk.simile-widgets.org/exhibit/examples/presidents/presidents.html>: > > add(foreach(.presidency, date-range(.inDate, default(.outDate, now()), > 'day'))), > > But lenses cover individual items, not collections. More sophisticated > aggregation is generally done by individual views, and nobody has created a > view that aggregates by summing the way you want. > > > > On Wednesday, November 09, 2011 10:09:25 AM, KC wrote: > >> >> Any Idea on how to add any method to enable this summary/pivot table >> basing only on the existing JSON? >> Please guide me to a place to add/edit code. >> >> >> On Nov 7, 9:50 am, David Karger<[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> I'm afraid I can't understand what you're trying to do. Perhaps an >>> example would help. >>> >>> On 11/7/2011 9:31 AM, KC wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> Thank you very much for this amazing framework to all the >>>> contributors. >>>> I have a data set in JSON file with 40+ properties for each item. I am >>>> trying to add a small summary table on the page grouped by a specific >>>> property, just like a SQL query group by feature with one-row for each >>>> specified property tyep. I am very new to this framework and couldn't >>>> find this in the documentation. Let me know if I can add some code >>>> anywhere to enable this feature. >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> -KC >>>> >>> >>> >> -- -KC Reddy -- 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.
