Thanks Yaron. Two followup questions:
(1) How would you implement a hierarchy of place types using Cargo? Would
you just have a TYPE field (nation, city, neighborhood) and PARTOF field
with all pages being part of category PLACE? Or would you try to do
something more sophisticated with categories (place:nation, place:city) ?
(2) Is there any way to autocomplete on a set of pages that match a query?
Perhaps a query that draws from the current contents of form pulldown
menus, etc?
On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 9:09 PM Yaron Koren <yaron57(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi David,
I believe this is two separate issues. The first is, I believe, due to a
bug that existed with #template_display, where it didn't display links for
fields of type "Page" that also have a list of allowed values defined for
them. I just checked in a fix for this, so if you get the latest Page Forms
code, it should hopefully work correctly.
The second isn't actually a bug, I don't think. When you set
autocompletion for a field of type Page, you have two choices: you can
autocomplete based on values that have already been entered for that field,
or you can autocomplete based on the set of wiki pages that the field is
meant to hold. By default, it's the first one - which means that you will
only see a value in the autocompletion after it's been entered at least
once. Ultimately, it probably doesn't really matter which one you do - but
if you stick with this approach, you'll need to manually enter each value
once.
-Yaron
On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 2:08 PM David Epstein <davideps(a)umich.edu> wrote:
Hi folks,
I'm working with Cargo, PageForms, and PageSchemas. I'm trying to define
a hierarchy of places (all assigned to category "Place"). I'm probably
doing several things wrong. The hierarchy is roughly:
SolarSytem- -> Planet --> Continent --> Nation --> SubRegion --> City
-->
Neighborhood
I used PageSchemas to generate a "Place" Cargo table, Form, and Template.
It has two fields right now. (1) The "Type" Cargo field is a Page with a
list of possible inputs from the hierarchy above. The "Type" Template is
text with autocomplete. (2) The "PartOf" field is identical except it has
no list of possible inputs since I was hoping it would draw from page
instances.
When I choose a Place "Type" from the list, the selection is displayed as
static text, not as a link (even if I manually create a page with the same
name). When I try to choose a Place "PartOf", autocomplete never finds the
places I've already generated.
What is the proper way to create such a hierarchy? My approach does not
generate real subcategories like Place:SolarSystem and Place:Planet. Is
that what I should be doing? Does that require each subcategory to have its
own schema, form, and template?
Thanks for your guidance,
-david
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