ok, sounds good

thanks

Eric

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Christian Ledermann
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Eric,
>
> collective.flexitopic was not designed with extensibility in mind :(
> but this is about to change.
> Right now collective.flexitopic and collective.geo.flexitopic use a
> monolithic page template.
> (I had to get something out fast)
>
> I will split this into a simplified template with viewlet managers.
>
> 1) will hold the viewlets for
>   * description
>   * the subtopic tables
>   * and in case of geo.flexitopic the map
>
> 2) will hold a viewlet for the form
>
> 3) will hold the results table
>
> 4) will probably be a manger to insert the javascript
>
>
> as a side effect this will decrease the lines of code in
> collective.geo.flexitopic
> there i only have to define the viewlet to display the map instead of having a
> amended copy of the flexitopic page template :)
>
> This way one can easily add or remove functionality/parts of the page.
>
> I think i will get something out next week so we can take it from there.
>
> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Eric Bréhault <[email protected]> wrote:
>> ok good !
>> we are going to study collective.geo.flexitopic to see how it is structured
>> and we keep you informed
>>
>> eric
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Christian Ledermann
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Hi Eric,
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Eric Bréhault <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> hello Christian,
>>>>
>>>> very nice integration between collective.geo and flexitopic !
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks :)
>>>
>>>> for your information, we (Makina Corpus) have created
>>>> collective.geo.mapcontent and we are currently working on a new
>>>> feature that provides the reversed mechanism compared to yours:
>>>> by zooming or moving on the map, we get a dynamic list of all the
>>>> contents belonging to the current bounding box
>>>>
>>>
>>> I am going to need that 8-)
>>>
>>>
>>>> we do not plan to use flexitopic to render this list, it is supposed
>>>> to be something quite simple and light in term of ergonomy, so just a
>>>> list of clickable items in a portlet, not a table with columns,
>>>> sorting and so on
>>>
>>> Yes sounds perfectly reasonable, keep it small and simple.
>>>
>>>
>>>> but I think the 2 features could be combined (your scalar filtering
>>>> could be refined with a spatial filtering, and vice-versa)
>>>
>>> Yes, I think that would be awesome
>>>
>>>> maybe it could make sense to merge them and also offer optional widgets:
>>>> for instance, someone may not need the slider, but need the flexitopic
>>>> rendering, another might want a basic html display but with a slider,
>>>> or display the list in a portlet, etc.
>>>>
>>>
>>> maybe this could be done the way I did it with
>>> collective.geo.flexitopic and collective.flexitopic.
>>> A new product that glues the functionality together, that way the base
>>> products can be kept small
>>> and there is less feature creep in the base.
>>>
>>>> maybe the different widgets could be provided as macros, and as far as
>>>> we make sure they provides an accurate JQuery behaviour, the widget
>>>> should be able to interoperate
>>>
>>> yes either macros or viewlets.
>>>
>
>
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