16 Dec
2008
16 Dec
'08
12:41 p.m.
All,
I'm having problem understanding how to customize Magritte/Seaside.
I have an object PXADataType with the following description:
descriptionValues
^ MAToManyRelationDescription new
classes: (Array
with: PXAQuantityValue
with: PXAQualityValue);
accessor: #values;
label: 'Werte';
priority: 100;
beDefinitive;
beOrdered;
yourself
This object has a collection of values accessible by #values where the
collection items can be of type PXAQuantityValue or PXAQualityValue.
When I call: an edit form on PXADataType using "(aPXADataType
descriptionEdit asComponentOn: aPXADataType) addValidatedForm" I do get
the values rendered as a report. However the only possibility to edit
the collection is by changing the order using "up"/"down".
What I would like to do is a extended report with a possibility to
add/change/delete the entries?
How can I change the default behaviour in this case?
Thanks for your help.
CU,
udo
16 Dec
16 Dec
1:36 p.m.
What I would like to do is a extended report with a
possibility to
add/change/delete the entries?
Remove the line
beDefinitive;
from your description.
Cheers,
Lukas
--
Lukas Renggli
http://www.lukas-renggli.ch
4:04 p.m.
Lukas Renggli schrieb:
Remove the line
beDefinitive;
from your description.
That's working now - thanks for your help. I'm
struggling a bit with
instance creation now.
Is it possible to customize instance creation in a report. I.e. when I
provide a collection of classes to #classes: then the instance creation
when I press "Add" is simply done by sending #new.
How can I customize this? I though about having a block which provides a
new instance or some way to pre-provide new instances but did not find
something like this.
What's the Magritte way to do it?
Thanks,
Udo
4:22 p.m.
How can I customize this? I though about having a
block which provides a new
instance or some way to pre-provide new instances but did not find something
like this.
Object creation is not really modelled in Magritte.
What you could do is to create a subclass of MAOneToManyComponent,
specify that in #componentClass: of your description and override
#add. This is where #new is called.
When building Magritte I found it very difficult for 1:1 and 1:m
relations to get generally useful semantics and user-interfaces. What
Magritte does by default might make sense in a some cases, but usually
you need to go a bit deeper and write some glue code to make it
cleanly integrate into your application.
Lukas
--
Lukas Renggli
http://www.lukas-renggli.ch
4:32 p.m.
Lukas Renggli schrieb:
What you could do is to create a subclass of
MAOneToManyComponent,
specify that in #componentClass: of your description and override
#add. This is where #new is called.
Thanks for the update - I thought I simply
missed something. I'll go the
subclass path then.
When building Magritte I found it very difficult for
1:1 and 1:m
relations to get generally useful semantics and user-interfaces. What
Magritte does by default might make sense in a some cases, but usually
you need to go a bit deeper and write some glue code to make it
cleanly integrate into your application.
Thanks for the explenation - I have to
admit that even with those
"limitations" Magritte simply blows me away! I enhanced my model classes
a bit to play nicer with Magritte and alreay threw away hundreds of
lines of manual Seaside code already! I love it! :-)
CU,
Udo
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