Here's one. I had to make another tweak to get it to work, that
hopefully didn't break anything else. We definitely need to take a look
at how to handle date parsing in general.
http://people.csail.mit.edu/karger/Exhibit/Sandy/index.html
On 10/30/2012 3:53 PM, . wrote:
ok thanks, the date converter was the problem, serves me for right
trying to give you a link to look at, spent time creating an exhibit
to replicate the problem and created more, the presidency exhibit
wasn't the one I was actually having problems with it was another, but
wanted to try and isolate the problem and created irrelevant ones.
still can't get to fully work
a working example with google spreadsheets and exhibit 3 would be nice
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 5:45 PM, David Karger <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I've started looking at this; it's unveiled a number of separate
problems. I have suggested fixes at the end of the story.
The simplest problem was the reported one: a failure to include
the date conversion function. I've fixed this with an instance of
the api at
http://people.csail.mit.edu/karger/Exhibit3/api/exhibit-api.js
Unfortunately this was only the tip of the iceberg. In fact, it
wasn't even very important. In your spreadsheet, you've created
duplicate "birth" and "death" columns, and filled them with proper
iso8601-format dates which exhibit doesn't need to convert. So if
you'd just deleted the "traditional format" date columns, then the
iso8601 converter wouldn't have been needed and you wouldn't have
seen the error. As it is, even with the parsing corrected, your
newer columns, since they have the same column headings, overwrite
the traditional date columns.
With the data conversion problem out of the way, the next problem
is that your spreadsheet does not contain "presidency" data.
Presidents don't have their own indates and outdates; instead they
have presidencies where each presidency has an indate and an
outdate (this was forced upon us by Grover Cleveland, who had the
gall to be elected for two non-contiguous terms). Your
spreadsheet only holds the presidents, and not their presidencies,
so when exhibit tries to look up the presidency data it finds
nothing. That is why none of the days-in-office etc. statistics
are showing in the tabular view.
Finally, there appears to be a problem with extension loading.
Something is preventing the timeline (and possibly the map) from
signaling that loading is done and allowing exhibit to proceed.
But if you remove the timeline (and possibly the map) you can at
least verify that data is being properly loaded by looking at the
tabular view.
So, if you'd like to progress on this issue, you should do one of
the following:
Option 1 (skip date parsing)
* remove the "traditional date" columns from your spreadsheet
* add another spreadsheet (or json file) providing the
"presidency" data that is missing (with dates in UTC of course)
* verify the released version of exhibit works on this data (in
tabular view) without the extensions
* check if perhaps its extension loader will work with the other
problems solved
Option 2 (try to use date parsing)
* use my fork of the exhibit api at
http://people.csail.mit.edu/karger/Exhibit3/api/exhibit-api.js
* remove the UTC data columns from your spreadsheet
* add another spreadsheet (or json file) providing the
"presidency" data that is missing (with dates in traditional
format if you like)
* verify the forked version of exhibit works on this data (in
tabular view) without the extensions
* check if perhaps its extension loader will work with the other
problems solved
On 10/14/2012 1:52 PM, lostexpectation wrote:
trying to use google spreadsheets with exhibit 3
trying to use example where nothing else changes, can't really
find
one
so converted an exhibit 3 example
http://www.simile-widgets.org/exhibit3/examples/presidents/presidents.html
data
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqAEiinGYynOdFd3dDRBWFJXUllSRnZzZEYxNEVTT3c
swapping indatae outdate for birth death just to have
something on the
timeline
http://dublinstreams.com/tds/exhibit3/presidents3.html
but getting an error
Uncaught TypeError: Object #<Object> has no method
'makeISO8601DateString' exhibit-scripted-bundle.js:1
Exhibit.Importer.JSONP.GoogleSpreadsheet.transformJSON
ps some of the exhibit3 examples have the old 'ex:label'
instead of
'data-ex-label' will the old way still work if trying to convert
previous exhibits
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