Partially answering my own question:
All you need to do is pass along the dialog you would like to open in the JS
method:
classDef("mgnl.data.DataTree", {
create: function(path, dialog){
...
}
....
}
So when you klick "New university" in that custom tree, the following
JavaScript should be executed:
mgnl.data.DataTree.create(${tree}.selectedNode.id, 'university')
So far, so good: The correct dialog is opened. Unfortunately the dialog is now
also trying to create a node of the type "university" because it uses the
dialog name for it. So you need to write a custom dialog which gets its type
info from somewhere else -> most likely from the dialog configuration itself.
So part one is solved: I can configure my tree which opens the dialog I want.
And I can configure that dialog to create the node type I want.
Next step: Now I need to configure the tree to also use that dialog when
double-clicking on a node. And since I have multiple node types in my tree I
somehow need to provide a list like this:
- node type a -> dialog 1
- node type b -> dialog 2
- ...
-will
On 13.09.2011, at 16:34, Will Scheidegger wrote:
>
> Dear Magnolians
>
> I'm trying to find a work around for the limitations of hierarchically
> defined node types. If you have the following node types
>
> - organization
> - staff
> - person
>
> you cannot have
>
> - university
> - staff
> - person
>
> You _can_ have it in the JCR node type definitions, but you cannot define the
> types like this in the data module because it will try to define "staff" and
> "person" twice and will block it (yes, copying the definitions in the config
> tree from organization to university does not work either).
>
> -> IMO it would be better if the data module would define the node types in a
> flat list and would allow to build the hierarchy separately.
>
> But how would you solve the problem above on a short term? My need is to
> "extend" the organization node with additional attributes. I don't even need
> a separate node type. The two could be in totally different trees. How can I
> configure a tree to behave like a organization tree (allowing me to create
> organizations with staff lists) but display a different dialog for the
> organizations with additional input elements? The dialogs are selected by the
> node types. Is there some other way to tell the tree what dialog to use for
> my node of the type organization?
>
> Thanks!
> -will
>
>
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