Excellent! Seems close but the sort options do not seem to work. I really hope you are successful in getting this improved and adopted.
The reason I am trying to pursue this is that FileMaker has a feature called a "Web Viewer". It can view all the normal external things that a browser can handle. It can also handle calculated HTML using the "data" protocol: data:text/html,<html><body>Hello World</body></html> A calculation or script can be used to create something like the above, using a FileMaker dataset, but more complex. Ending up with something like you have described below. Thus allowing a live Exhibit view of the user's selected dataset. > Bruce Robertson wrote: >> Is is possible to make Exhibit work with the JSON data included in the HTML >> file? > > This intrigued me so I looked at the source. Turns out it's not hard -- > the json file is javascript, after all. You just have to put the JSON > in the file and arrange for it to be loaded at the appropriate time with > a few extra lines of code. Kudos again to the development team to make > something so extensible and so well structured. > > Here's a bit of a hack converting the MIT Nobel Prize Winners example at > http://simile.mit.edu/wiki/Exhibit/Getting_Started_Tutorial > to inline. Only the top of the html file has changed (and I only > included the first two data items): > > <html> > <head> > <title>MIT Nobel Prize Winners</title> > > <link type="inline" rel="exhibit/data" /> > > <script > src="http://static.simile.mit.edu/exhibit/api-2.0/exhibit-api.js"; > type="text/javascript"></script> > <script > src="http://static.simile.mit.edu/exhibit/extensions-2.0/time/time-extension.j > s" > type="text/javascript"></script> > > <script> > Exhibit.InlineImporter = { }; > Exhibit.importers["inline"] = Exhibit.InlineImporter; > Exhibit.InlineImporter.load = function(link, database, cont) { > Exhibit.UI.showBusyIndicator(); > database.loadData(Exhibit.InlineImporter.userdata); > Exhibit.UI.hideBusyIndicator(); > if (cont) cont(); > }; > > Exhibit.InlineImporter.userdata=({ > properties: { > "co-winner" : { > valueType: "item" > } > }, > "items" : [ > { type : "Nobelist", > label : "Burton Richter", > discipline : "Physics", > shared : "yes", > "last-name" : "Richter", > "nobel-year" : "1976", > relationship : "alumni", > "co-winner" : "Samuel C.C. Ting", > "relationship-detail" : "MIT S.B. 1952, Ph.D. 1956", > imageURL : > "http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1976/richter_thumb.jpg"; > }, > { type : "Nobelist", > label : "George A. Akerlof", > discipline : "Economics", > shared : "yes", > "last-name" : "Akerlof", > "nobel-year" : "2001", > relationship : "alumni", > "relationship-detail" : "MIT Ph.D. 1966", > imageURL : > "http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/2001/akerlof_thumb.jpg> " > } > ] > }); > </script> > > <style> ... > > et voila. Just put your JSON in the userdata, there. Unlike external > json files, there's no nice error message with the above method, so if > the syntax is invalid, it won't say anything -- just show an empty > database. Your browser (the visitor's browser) will indicate a > javascript error. > > And this method isn't guaranteed to work if the Importer API changes in > or after v2.0, but I can make it a little safer and turn it into an > official importer if there's interest and if the exhibit team will take > it. (?) > > I'd have to guess that exhibit would appear to start slightly faster > this way... I'm going to try it with one of my datasets... > > Brian > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general > _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general
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