On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 9:38 PM, jevans <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
:)
> I've read through your sites but still at a bit of a loss to
> understand.
If you have any suggestions to enhance the documentation or doc
> Could you give some common uses for your plugin?
>
Briefly the main goal of the plugin is to integrate Trac with Google
technologies, especially those being useful to display multiple
contents everywhere WikiFormatting is allowed. So far this includes
iGoogle gadgets, and visualization gadgets.
The former are like a mini-site inside your site. so that encloses
infinite possibilities. For example if you want to embed GTalk gadget
in your wiki pages you can do it, if you want to build your own gadget
containing your own mini-app and embed it in your wiki pages the just
do it. If you have a Tweeter account and want to show your tweets in
your wiki pages then do it ... there are no limits !
Visualization gadgets are a subset of the former. They are built
specifically to display data from different locations in different
ways. Example data sources are Google Spreadsheets and ...
... your own Trac environment since it's able to offer the data
managed by plugins (tickets, wiki pages, files in your repos, ...
please read the reference page ;o) in the formats defined by GViz API
protocol. This also means that you can retrieve all these data in the
alternative formats supported by the protocol (e.g. CSV, TSV, HTML
...) plus other non-standard formats (e.g. MoinMoin wiki formatting,
RST coming soon ;o)
This doesn't end in here. Since the plugin is extensible (thnx Trac
devs for Trac architecture :) then you can implement your own data
sources. So, if you have a plugin that manages lots of data then you
can extend the two methods in `tracgviz.api.IGVizDataProvider` (AFAICR
;o) and automatically you'll be able to display your own data using
GViz gadgets.
If you read the docs for Google Visualization API, and iGoogle gadgets
then you'll find a lot of use cases. If you take a look at iGoogle
gadgets gallery and the visualization gadgets gallery you'll find a
lot of examples. Besides, if you have an specific question about
something that you want to do, then you may ask for support [2]_ and
specify what you need to do and I could help you to get it done.
Besides the plugin also offers some useful RPC handlers missing from
XmlRpcPlugin (e.g. for reports, timeline, VCS).
In fact I offered this opportunity so that you (users ;o) could help
me to discover the most common use cases, and document everything in
the FAQ [3]_.
The initial use case was that I wanted to display data (milestones,
tickets ...) about my projects in my blog (and I'll be able to do it
after 1.4.1 :o)
The next release will add very important features which will eliminate
current limitations, and subsequent versions will add much more value
, and useful features.
> Thanks,
> - jevans
>
Hope you like it once you try it
;o)
.. [2] Submit a support request
(https://opensvn.csie.org/traccgi/swlcu/newticket?component=plugin_trac_gviz&priority=trivial&type=support)
.. [3] TracGViz FAQ
(https://opensvn.csie.org/traccgi/swlcu/wiki/En/Devel/TracGViz#FAQ)
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Regards,
Olemis.
Blog ES: http://simelo-es.blogspot.com/
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