Thanks David K, your workaround works. It is a bit awkward though, I hope the higher power looks upon me with kindness and fixes the babel bug ;)
On Feb 26, 5:07 pm, David Karger <[email protected]> wrote: > ah, so you are describing a babel bug rather than an exhibit bug. > for that it might be necessary to invoke a higher power (davidh). > > One quick hack you could do is as follows: > for your spreadsheet, rename the current "label" column as "intendedLabel" > create a new "label" column that you fill with _distinct_ values (eg, > increasing integers). > after your json is generated, do a global replace in it of "label" by > "fakeLabel" and then replace "intendedLabel" with "label" > > Because babel is presumably using the label field to merge items, your > use of distinct labels will prevent the merge. But after you rename the > properties, exhibit will carry out the correct merge on the client side. > > mowiwrote: > > Hi David, > > > Thanks for making a quick example. I understand how my JSON file > > should look like but I do not make my JSON by hand, that would be too > > much work.. > > I generate my JSON file with babel from an excel sheet. > > I cannot figure out how I can get babel to generate a file like > > your .js file > > > my excel file looks like this: > >http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pEBZe9K5tabOdZXuL1uEoRQ > > > and the JSON that is generated by Babel like this. > >http://www.moniquedewilt.com/test/manytomanytest.js > > > I have tried making to seperate JSONs, one with the items and one with > > the connections but that did not work either. Babel only makes one > > "record" for each item and only one value in each field. when the item > > appears multiple times in excel with the same field, babel only uses > > the last value for that field. > > Any clues how to get Babel to do this? > > > On Feb 26, 4:21 pm, David Karger <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Take a look at > >> http://people.csail.mit.edu/karger/Exhibit/example.html > >> and you'll see that "thing" has three children first, second, and > >> third. If you look at the data file > >> http://people.csail.mit.edu/karger/Exhibit/data.js > >> you will see that those children were introduced using two separate > >> mentions of "thing" > > >> mowiwrote: > > >>> Hi David, > > >>> I tried it like you said and made a third excel sheet for the > >>> connections. The authors are now connected to the articles but > >>> instead of multiple authors only the last author got connected to the > >>> article in the JSON file. I used Babel to convert the excel file to > >>> JSON. I have also tried to convert to JSONP but that didn`t matter. > >>> Any ideas? > > >>> On Feb 19, 2:52 pm, David Karger <[email protected]> wrote: > > >>>> It's ok; you can use author and article as ID even if they appear > >>>> multiple times. First do the obvious thing, creating items for the > >>>> exhibit corresponding to the authors and articles (using author name as > >>>> id for the authors, and article title as id for the articles): > >>>> {type: "Author", id: "name of author", affiliation: "affiliation of > >>>> author"...} > >>>> {type: "Article", id: "title of article", year: "year of publication", > >>>> ....} > > >>>> Finally, take your relationship table. Suppose it has a row (authorX, > >>>> articleY) > >>>> add another fragment of json to the collection of "items": > >>>> {id: "articleY", author: "authorX"} > >>>> Do this for every row. This will accomplish what you want. > > >>>> To understand what is going on, note how exhibit will interpret these > >>>> final fragments from the relationship table. It will say "ok, this > >>>> person is specifying an item whose id is articleY and has an author > >>>> property with value authorX. But I already know about an item whose id > >>>> is articleY---namely, the one that was defined at the beginning of type > >>>> "Article". So, I'm not going to create a new item with id articleY. > >>>> Instead, I will _merge_ the attributes of the new item (in particular, > >>>> the author relationship to authorX) into the already existing item. And > >>>> if that item already has a value of the author property, because I > >>>> already saw an author of that article, then I will _add_ authorX as an > >>>> additional value for the now-multivalued author property on articleX." > > >>>> mowiwrote: > > >>>>> hi, > >>>>> I have some data with many to many relationships just like the > >>>>> articles and authors in the example website about ISWC 2007 + ASWC > >>>>> 2007.http://people.csail.mit.edu/dfhuynh/projects/graph-based-exhibit/grap... > > >>>>> there it is solved by putting multiple persons in the "author" field. > > >>>>> I have a problem getting multiple values in one field because the > >>>>> data is from acces 2003. I have got one table with articles, one with > >>>>> authors and one with relationships. The relationship list has three > >>>>> columns:id (which I do not really use), author and article. Can i also > >>>>> do it like that in exhibit? how can I do that? > >>>>> In the example you use ".author.affiliation" to get a value from the > >>>>> author list in the article overview. Author is an id there. In my > >>>>> relationship list both author and article cannot be id because they > >>>>> appear multiple times. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SIMILE Widgets" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/simile-widgets?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
