The question is: how to display complex documents returned from Mongodb.
Suppose I have two projects in my Projects collection and each project has 2 People embedded by their IDs from the People collection.
Project.find() returns this CURSOR which I'm presenting as JSON for readability:
{ "_id" : "5ed5ade8-c140-46f7-8d9e-2344fc53df8e", "name" : "Project1", "personnel" : [ "b4690c4b-d126-4737-8f40-921234567890", "977a6335-a1be-4af5-8b3f-4abcdefghijk" ] }
{ "_id" : "23f073c7-a713-4713-86a7-7d6600433146", "name" : "Project2", "personnel" : [ "b4690c4b-d126-4737-8f40-92b43072d7a1", "977a6335-a1be-4af5-8b3f-48cd5f8328db" ]}
My template in .html file:
<template name="theProjects">
{{#each theTitles}}
Name: {{name}}
Personnel: {{personnel}}
{{/each}}
</template>
renders this in the browser:
Name: Project1
Personnel: b4690c4b-d126-4737-8f40-921234567890,977a6335-a1be-4af5-8b3f-4abcdefghijk
Name: Project2
Personnel:b4690c4b-d126-4737-8f40-92b43072d7a1,977a6335-a1be-4af5-8b3f-48cd5f8328db
Questions:
The {{personnel}} field is simply being filled in by the contents of the personnel array in the Projects collect. I want to list these separately on their own line. Can't figure that out. Just slicing won't do because...
The greater need clearly is to be able to manipulate and edit the Personnel data so the template has to be properly Meteor reactive.
Now the hard one: the personnel ID's from the People collection are embedded in the Project documents. How would I use Meteor to replace the ID's with the appropriate names from the Personnel collection and still keep their data reactivity?
I know this is a lot to ask but these kind of things seem like they are foundational to bigger and more complex web site.
Thanks everyone.
https://gist.github.com/3220991
This is a gist I made to show you use the of Handlebars helpers. This will stay reactive and is very easy to use. I hope you can use it.
If you need more help or comments , just mention me.
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I'm currently working with an output from the Drupal json-api module and have noticed that the structure of an output forces an O(n^2) time complexity issue on the front by forcing the front end developers to reformat the json output given to them so an attachment can me in the same object as the entity it belongs to.
Example
So let's say I'm listing a bunch of categories with their thumbnails to be used on the front end. What a json output would normally look like for that is something like:
Normal category json structure
[
{
"uid":123,
"category_name":"cars",
"slug":"cars",
"thumbnail":"example.com/cars.jpg"
},
{
"uid":124,
"category_name":"sports",
"slug":"sports",
"thumbnail":"example.com/sports.jpg"
}
]
With drupal it seems that thumbnails are in their own includes separate from data creating an O(n^2). For example:
I make a get request using this endpoint:
example.com/jsonapi/taxonomy_term/genre?fields[taxonomy_term--genre]=name,path,field_genre_image,vid&include=field_genre_image
The structure of the data returned from the drupal json api module is going to be similar to this:
pseudo code for better readability
{
"data":[
{
"uid":123,
"category_name":"cars",
"slug":"cars",
"relationships":{
"thumbnail":{
"id":123
}
}
},
{
"uid":124,
"category_name":"sports",
"slug":"sports",
"relationships":{
"thumbnail":{
"id":124
}
}
}
],
"included":[
{
"type":"file",
"id":123,
"path":"example.com/cars.jpg"
},
{
"type":"file",
"id":124,
"path":"example.com/sports.jpg"
}
]
}
The problem with the drupal output is that I have to loop through the data and then in the data loop loop through the includes and attach each thumbnail to the category causing an O(n^2) on the frontend.
Is there a way for the frontend to request a category using the drupal json module to contain the thumbnail in the category like the normal json output above without having to restructure the json api on the frontend?
Please note I am not a drupal developer so the terminology I might use will be off.
JSON:API can output a list of entities and includes another list of entities (can have different types). each entity has UUID, so, accessing them can be O(logn) or even O(0) if you apply index to their UUID
So, you would have one loop to parse each of the included entity and store and index them (like SQLite), or simply loop over all included entities, build 1 array key by UUID and value is object of an entity
I already implemented the creation of a document set at library root level. For this I used the following link: Is it possible to create a project documentset using graph API?
I follow the following steps :
1- Retrieve the document library's Drive Id:
GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/sites/${siteId}/lists/${listId}?$expand=drive
2- Create the folder:
POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/drives/${library.drive.id}/root/children
The body of the request is the following
{
"name": ${folderName},
"folder": {},
}
3- Get the folder's SharePoint item id:
GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/sites/${siteId}/drives/${library.drive.id}/items/${folder.id}?expand=sharepointids
4- Update the item in the Document Library so that it updates to the desired Document Set:
PATCH https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/sites/${siteId}/lists/${listId}/items/${sharepointIds.listItemId}
I do send the following body to the patch request:
{
"contentType": {
"id": "content-type-id-of-the-document-set"
},
"fields": {}
}
I'm looking now how to create a document set in a specific folder in Sharepoint.
For example, i want to create the following folder structure.
The documents folder is at the library root and I want to create a document set named billing.
documents
|_ billing
|_ 2021
|_11
|_01
|_ document1.pdf
|_ document2.pdf
|_ document3.pdf
|_02
...
|_03
...
|_04
|_10
...
thanks
I'm doing something similar but I'm a little behind you, haven't yet created the Document Set (almost there!), but may I respectfully challenge your approach?
I'm not sure it's a good idea to mix Folders and Document Sets, mainly because a Folder breaks the metadata flow, you could achieve the same results just using Document Sets.
I am assuming that your 'day' in the data structure above is your Document Set (containing document1.pdf, etc.) You might want to consider creating a 'Billing' Document Set and either specifically add a Date field to the Document Set metadata or, perhaps better still, just use the standard Created On metadata and then create Views suitably filtered/grouped/sorted on that date.
This way you can also create filtered views for 'Client' or 'Invoice' or 'Financial Year' or whatever.
As soon as your documents exist in a folder, you can no longer filter/sort/group etc., the document library based on metadata.
FURTHER INFORMATION
I am personally structuring my Sales document library thus:
Name: Opportunity; Content Type: Document Set; Metadata: Client Name, Client Address, Client Contact
Name: Proposal; Content Type: Document; Metadata: Proposal ID, Version
Name: Quote; Content Type: Document; Metadata: Quote ID, Version
Etc...
This way the basic SharePoint view is a list of Opportunities (Document Sets), inside which are Proposals, Quotes etc., but I can also filter the view to just show Proposals (i.e. filter by Content Type), or search for a specific Proposal ID, or group by Client Name, then sort chronologically, or by Proposal ID etc.
I'm just saying that you get a lot more flexibility if you avoid using Folders entirely.
p.s. I've been researching for days now how to create Document Sets with graph, it never occurred to me that it might be a two-step process i.e. create the folder, then patch its content type. Many thanks for your post!!
Just re-read your post and my assumption that the 'day' would be your document set was incorrect. In this case, there would be no benefit having a Document Set containing Folders because the moment a Folder exists in the Document Set, metadata flow stops, and the only reason (well, the main reason*) to use Document Sets in preference to Folders is that metadata flow.
*Document Sets also allow you to automatically create a set of documents based on defined templates.
I have a survey form I would like an admin to be able to add more questions to on the fly. The way I'm thinking of doing this is to have the admin add questions to a Questions collection with several properties e.g:
{
"description" : "desc",
"fieldType" : "textField",
"sortOrder" : 1,
"dataType" : "text",
"_id" : "eFopP8XFgY8Br93fA"
}
and then on the client side, loop through these using an #each block and a dynamic template like so:
{{#each questions}}
{{>Template.dynamic template=fieldType}}
{{/each}}
Now the "fieldType" field would correspond to the name of a stored template e.g
<template name="textField">
<div>
<input id="{{_id}}" type="{{dataType}}" class="validate">
<label for="{{_id}}">{{description}}</label>
</div>
</template>
and inside these templates would have different input fields depending on the type.
I have two issues:
Is this a good way to go about this problem?
If it is, how would you be able to get the values of these input fields when saving the answers (as we don't know what fields could be there at compile time)
Regarding your first question, I agree with #Kyll regarding autoform and I think you can pass the schema as a json object dynamically.
Regarding your 2nd question, please check SO question Dynamically add form fields in meteorjs where you will find answer to your second question. You can easily grab value of all fields in your dynamically created form using .serializeArray() JQuery serializeArray
I have a unique requirement by my company to have a page for each sub-folder in a particular folder of alfresco share. So basically there would be hundreds of sub-folders and corresponding hundreds of pages representing it. The page for that folder should have links to its sub-folders and maybe even documents within it in the form of a collapsible list as shown:
Folder 1
-Category 1
Doc 1
Doc 2
-Category 2
-Sub-category 1
doc 3
I want to have something like shown above on one side of the page and the other side should have all the recent activities related to the folder, like who added a doc, what edits were made, were there any comments, etc. I searched a lot related to this but I am not sure if alfresco supports this kind of customization. I found some really good tutorials on creating custom pages in share using JSON widgets but don't think it would help in this case. Other option would be generate an html page for every new folder created and populate it using javascript. But this method won't have much flexibility in terms of designing the page. Does anyone know of a better approach or idea for this requirement ? I would really appreciate any thoughts on this.
I'll just write it as an answer (relating to my previous comment). I've done something similar in this way (using the link provided in the comments:
create a simple alfresco web script that returns a json of what you need (in you case recently modified documents). I've done it with listing a folder, this is mywebscript.get.json.ftl:
{
"docprop" : [
<#list companyhome.childByNamePath["MyFolder"].children as child>
{
"name" : "${child.properties.name}" ,
"author" : "${child.properties["cm:author"]}",
"CreatedDate" : "${child.properties.created?datetime}"
}
<#if child_has_next> , </#if>
</#list>
]
}
create Share widget controller file where you call this web script with retrievedoc.get.js:
var connector = remote.connect("alfresco");
var data = connector.get("/mywebscript.json"); //the url is declared in your `mywebscript.get.desc.xml`
// create json object from data
var result = eval('(' + data + ')');
model.docprop = result["docprop"];
create Share widget presentation template with retrievedoc.get.html.ftl:
<div class="dashlet">
<div class="title">${msg("header.retrievedocTitle")}</div>
<div class="body retrievedoc">
<table>
<tr>
<th>Name: </th>
<thAuthor: </th>
<th>Created: </th>
</tr>
<#list docprop as t>
<tr>
<td>${t.name}</td>
<td>${t.author}</td>
<td>${t.CreatedDate}</td>
</tr>
</#list>
</table>
</div>
You then need to register your widget in Share, and use it in your dashboard. It will call the Alfresco script and populate the widget with the results. Obviously you need to change your Alfresco script to return recent activities (you could make a query like: all documents modified in the last 24 hours, or something like this. But the method is the same.
Hope it helps.
You could create new folder tree component in alfresco share to meetup your requirement.
Alfresco share page madeup of multiple comoponents which are kind of self sufficient components in terms of data and dependancy(Excluding few alfresco common dependancy).
Here is the outline for the approch
Create one folder tree comopnent in alfresco, which will be nothing
but a webscript which render related webscripts output on page in
which component is included.
Create one Dynamic YUI tree with some dummy data and check weather
you are able to generate or not.(Just to make sure you have all
depenency included).
Create one data webscript on repository side which will fetch folder
structure related data from repository.Make it in such way that if
you pass folder noderef if will return all childrens under
that.There is one similar webscript also avilable out of box may be
you could reuse that.
Once you have that webscript working properly call that repository
webscript to populate your dynamic tree and remove all dummy data.
I hope this gives you good starting point.
You will certainly find documentation for each of these steps.
I am rather new to Symfony (2 weeks) so forgive my ignorance.
I am trying to add a custom action button that will link to a pre filtered list of a RELATED entity. I have done a lot of research but can't quite seem to find what I need.
Currently I have two entities Books and Authors with a manyToOne relation ship.
I have these set up in Sonata Admin in the usual way and all works well. I even have an author filter on the book list page which I am hoping can be leveraged to accomplish my goal.
In the Author list view, I would like to add an action button on each row next to View and Edit, called "View Books By Author". I can get the button but fail to correctly build the URL.
I have 3 issues with the routing:
1) I am trying to use admin.generateObjectUrl() or similar in my button template to cleanly build an admin URL but can't get a path to an alternate entity. In my case, since I am currently viewing authors, the links always point to the author entity not books as I would like.
2) I am uncertain how to get the id of the current author in order to pass it to the filters
3) I am uncertain how to cleanly build the filter query string parameters. I could do it by hand if necessary: bookEntityListPath + "?filter[author][value][]=" + $authorID
But obviously this is not that clean and I would prefer a better method if possible.
Thanks in advance!!!
I had the same issue and started trying out some code when I could not find an answer. Using the path() twig method (route to path conversion) it is quite easy to create a link like that.
See this documentation: http://symfony.com/doc/current/book/routing.html#generating-urls-from-a-template
Your link would look something like this:
<a href="{{ path('admin_application_book_list', {
'filter[author][value]': object.id
}) }}" class="btn btn-small">
With 'admin_application_book_list' being the path to the list of books (bookEntityListPath?) and object.id being the id of your author (would have the name object in a detail or edit template of that entity)