On 2011-12-08, at 9:17 AM, James Cicenia wrote:
> That all makes sense now and works perfectly. This conversion might go better
> than I originally planned.
>
> Thank you very much.
> James
>
> ps: now I can make a nice generalized custom reporting engine!
It would be nice if you had time to share how you went about it. It sounds good!
David
>
> On Dec 8, 2011, at 10:25 AM, Ramsey Gurley wrote:
>
>> Instead of using rules
>>
>>
>> (entity.name = 'PortfolioProject' and propertyKey = 'primaryGroup')
>> componentName = "D2WCustomComponent"
>>
>> (entity.name = 'PortfolioProject' and propertyKey = 'primaryGroup')
>> customComponentName = "D2WPrimaryAlignmentMetricByKey"
>>
>> use
>>
>> (entity.name = 'PortfolioProject' and propertyKey = 'primaryGroup')
>> componentName = "D2WPrimaryAlignmentMetricByKey"
>>
>> Since you are extending ERDCustomComponent, you shouldn't need the wrapper.
>> Then you can just call valueForBinding to get whatever you need from the
>> d2wContext.
>>
>> public String value(){
>> return
>> ((PortfolioProject)object).metricListValueByMetric(valueForBinding("lookupString"));
>> }
>>
>> Ramsey
>>
>> On Dec 8, 2011, at 6:19 AM, James Cicenia wrote:
>>
>>> OK -
>>>
>>>
>>> I spent a lot of hours last night converting a test version of this
>>> application to extend ERXApplication.... etc. I would be doing it the first
>>> of the year anyway.
>>>
>>> Now I have a little D2W rendering component. I want the rule to change an
>>> attribute of it. But I can't seem to make it happen.
>>>
>>> here is my simple component:
>>>
>>> public class D2WPrimaryAlignmentMetricByKey extends ERDCustomComponent {
>>> public EOEnterpriseObject object;
>>> public String key;
>>> public String lookupString;
>>>
>>> public D2WPrimaryAlignmentMetricByKey(WOContext context) {
>>> super(context);
>>> }
>>>
>>>
>>> public String value(){
>>> return
>>> ((PortfolioProject)object).metricListValueByMetric(lookupString);
>>> }
>>> }
>>>
>>>
>>> What can I do to get lookupString to be supplied by a rule??
>>>
>>> Here is my rule:
>>>
>>> (entity.name = 'PortfolioProject' and propertyKey = 'primaryGroup') ==>
>>> lookupString com.webobjects.directtoweb.Assignment "Primary Group"
>>>
>>> lookupString is always null when I run my report and debug my component.
>>>
>>> What am I missing.
>>>
>>>
>>> James Cicenia
>>> cell: 773.398.4649
>>>
>>>
>>>
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