On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 9:59 AM, Thomas Mortagne
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 9:50 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> On 8 Oct 2014 at 06:24:53, Jason Clemons 
>> ([email protected](mailto:[email protected])) wrote:
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>>> I'd like to do the same :)
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: users [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bryn Jeffries
>>> Sent: Tuesday, October 7, 2014 8:54 PM
>>> To: [email protected]
>>> Subject: [xwiki-users] DBlist with external query data?
>>>
>>> Please forgive my ignorance, but is it possible to use DBList with queries
>>> to other databases? I'd very much like to use this element populated with
>>> the results from a query to another database running on the same server as
>>> XWiki, but the only documentation I can find describes queries of the XWiki
>>> database.
>>
>> No, you cannot do that with DBList. It’s expecting a HQL query actually (and 
>> we’ve been needing to add support for XWQL too for a very long time).
>>
>> Another direction could be to look at adding a new type for that, see 
>> http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/CreatingNewXClassPropertyTypes
>>  (I don’t know if it would work though, it may be too tied to the XWiki data 
>> model).
>
> You don't really need a complete new type, you can provide a custom
> displayer for your field. See "Custom Display" property in the field
> definition in your class.

See 
http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/User+Property+Custom+Display
for example for an example of custom field displayer.

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>> Too bad that Computed Field only supports one value...
>>
>> Thanks
>> -Vincent
>>
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