Well glad to see I wasn't missing something obvious, this time. Thanks, I'll
give these a shot in the morning.
Andrew
On May 31, 2011, at 7:48 PM, Ramsey Gurley wrote:
>
> On May 31, 2011, at 4:31 PM, David Holt wrote:
>
>>
>> On 2011-05-31, at 12:53 PM, Andrew Kinnie wrote:
>>
>>> Greetings,
>>>
>>> I have a D2W app that acts as a simple CRUD front end to a datastore
>>> supporting a different app. I am working on making changes to the D2W
>>> rules, and am having some issues with the queryAll task. I am sure I am
>>> just missing something about which key or keypath to try.
>>>
>>>
>>> Specifically:
>>> 1. I would like to set the default property for a given entity's query
>>> instead of the one D2W chooses for me in the popup. I have tried
>>> displayPropertyKeys
>>>
>>> 45 : (task = 'queryAll' and entity.name = 'MyEntity') =>
>>> displayPropertyKeys = ("myDefaultKey", "MyOtherKey")
>>> [com.webobjects.directtoweb.Assignment]
>>
>> The displayPropertyKeys are already established as the visible entity names.
>> This provide the list of entities in the QueryAll page template, so your
>> rule definitely won't do as you hope.
>>
>>>
>>> This doesn't seem to have any effect. I've also tried displayKeyForEntity
>>> with similar non-results. I have very few rules (other than those which
>>> affect navigationState) so it doesn't appear that I have a higher valued
>>> rule.
>>
>> The display keys inside the pull down are established in the
>> ERD2WQueryAnyField. I don't know if you can set a context for the
>> relationship in your rules. Worth looking into, I suppose.
>>
>> keyList = relationshipContextDisplayAttributesKeys;
>>
>> relationshipContext() - Method in class
>> com.webobjects.directtoweb.D2WQueryAnyField
>> This method is intentionally undocumented.
>> relationshipContextDisplayAttributesKeys() - Method in class
>> com.webobjects.directtoweb.D2WQueryAnyField
>> This method is intentionally undocumented.
>>
>>
>> I'm guessing no.
>
>
> I remember seeing the logic behind that when I reimplemented my own query any
> field... I think the number one choice for the default is any
> attribute.name() like *name*. It's been so long ago now, I forget exactly
> what the logic was, but I don't remember it being something you could define
> via rules.
>
>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> 2. I would also prefer to use "like" instead of <, >, <>, = etc. for string
>>> based properties
>>
>> This rule works for a normal query page:
>>
>> 100 : propertyKey = 'summary' => qualifierOperators = ("contains")
>> [com.webobjects.directtoweb.Assignment]
>>
>> For the queryall task you may want to try something like
>> task = queryall and propertyKey like '*' => qualifierOperators = ("like")
>
>
> I *think* you can do that in your localizable strings file with something like
>
> "<>" = "not equals";
>
>
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> I vaguely remember that the last one of these posed some problems and may
>>> not be easily accomplished via rules, but I could not find the old email
>>> about it.
>>>
>>> Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
>>>
>>> Thanks
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