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Sorting/grouping by multiple properties. - Implement sorting/grouping by multiple properties for the web interface. I'm now using @sort0/@sortdir0,@sort1/@sortdir1,... and @group0/@groupdir0,... when generating URLs from a search template. These are converted to a list internally. When saving URLs (e.g. when storing queries) I'm using @sort=prop1,prop2,... and @group=... with optional '-' prepended to individual props. This means saved URLs are backward compatible with existing trackers (and yes, this was a design goal). I need the clumsy version with @sort0,@sort1 etc, because I'm currently using several selectors and checkboxes (as the classic template does, too). I don't think there is a way around that in HTML? - Updated (hopefully all) documentation to reflect the new URL format and the consequences in the web-interface. - I've set the number of sort/group properties in the classic template to two -- this can easily be reverted by changing n_sort to 1. Richard, would you look over these changes? I've set a tag before and (will set) after commit, so that it would be easy to merge out. Don't be too scared about the size of the change, most is documentation, the guts are in cgi/templating.py and small changes in the classic template.
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5 :Version: $Revision: 1.6 $
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7 [see also the roundup package docstring]
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9 There have been some modifications to the spec. I've marked these in the
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10 source with 'XXX' comments when I remember to.
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12 In short:
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13 Class.find() - may match multiple properties, uses keyword args.
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15 Class.filter() - isn't in the spec and it's very useful to have at the
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16 Class level.
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18 CGI interface index view specifier layout part - lose the '+' from the
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19 sorting arguments (it's a reserved URL character ;). Just made no
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20 prefix mean ascending and '-' prefix descending.
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22 ItemClass - renamed to IssueClass to better match it only having one
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23 hypderdb class "issue". Allowing > 1 hyperdb class breaks the
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24 "superseder" multilink (since it can only link to one thing, and
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25 we'd want bugs to link to support and vice-versa).
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27 template - the call="link()" is handled by special-case mechanisms in
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28 my top-level CGI handler. In a nutshell, the handler looks for a
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29 method on itself called 'index%s' or 'item%s' where %s is a class.
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30 Most items pass on to the templating mechanism, but the file class
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31 _always_ does downloading. It'll probably stay this way too...
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33 template - call="link(property)" may be used to link "the current item"
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34 (from an index) - the link text is the property specified.
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36 template - added functions that I found very useful: List, History and
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37 Submit.
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39 template - items must specify the message lists, history, etc. Having
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40 them by default was sometimes not wanted.
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42 template - index view determines its default columns from the
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43 template's ``tal:condition="request/show/<property>"`` directives.
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45 template - menu() and field() look awfully similar now .... ;)
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52 Back to `Table of Contents`_
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54 .. _`Table of Contents`: index.html
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