topic Re: AJAX Category Picker suggestions in Alfresco Archive

AJAX Category Picker suggestions

hbf — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:50:54 GMT

Dear Alfresco engineers,I've just taken a look at the latest AJAX Category Picker that is in the development version of Alfresco (SVN r1427).First of all, thanks for bringing an improved category picker in the next release of Alfresco! This is very welcome and the work is much appreciated! Ã¢â‚¬â€œÃ

Re: AJAX Category Picker suggestions

mikeh — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:01:18 GMT

Hi

Thanks for the feedback - always appreciated.

Actually, this is something we're looking at already. You can see an example of the AJAX category picker in "multiple select" mode in the Advanced Search dialog - we just need to do some back-end work to enable this elsewhere.

Thanks,
Mike

Re: AJAX Category Picker suggestions

hbf — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 01:08:03 GMT

Actually, this is something we're looking at already. You can see an example of the AJAX category picker in "multiple select" mode in the Advanced Search dialog - we just need to do some back-end work to enable this elsewhere.

Great! I imagine we're not the only ones that would highly appreciate this!

P.S. By the way: The Advanced Search dialog in Alfresco 2.1 does not allow multiple select in the way I ment: You cannot with 5 clicks (say) select 5 categories at the current level and then hit "Add to List". You have to click at least 3 times to select the tag and then one more click onto "Add to List" for *each* of the 5 tags. That's a lot more work. Ã¢â‚¬â€œÃ‚Â I hope I am not looking at the wrong picker?

Re: AJAX Category Picker suggestions

mikeh — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 06:38:48 GMT

…I hope I am not looking at the wrong picker?

Sounds like you are; I'm talking about the AJAX category picker in HEAD (which is what I thought you were referring to before..?)

Mike

Re: AJAX Category Picker suggestions

kevinr — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:26:04 GMT

Actually, this is something we're looking at already. You can see an example of the AJAX category picker in "multiple select" mode in the Advanced Search dialog - we just need to do some back-end work to enable this elsewhere.

Great! I imagine we're not the only ones that would highly appreciate this!

P.S. By the way: The Advanced Search dialog in Alfresco 2.1 does not allow multiple select in the way I ment: You cannot with 5 clicks (say) select 5 categories at the current level and then hit "Add to List". You have to click at least 3 times to select the tag and then one more click onto "Add to List" for *each* of the 5 tags. That's a lot more work. Ã¢â‚¬â€œ I hope I am not looking at the wrong picker?

In Alfresco 2.1 the Advanced Search picker is not using the new Ajax multi-select features - it is only present in 2.9.

Kevin

Re: AJAX Category Picker suggestions

hbf — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:50:34 GMT

Kevin and Mike, sorry for the confusion.

I only saw the new AJAX category picker in HEAD on nodes (not on the Advanced Search page).

But it's wonderful to hear that in the future the multi-select features will be enabled on the node editor, too!

Thanks for the feedback!
Kaspar

Re: AJAX Category Picker suggestions

gilles — Thu, 22 May 2008 16:30:48 GMT

About Category internationalisation, in the ALFCOM-1086 opened bug, one says that:

At the moment this is supported by internationalising the loaded files.

. I can't find the way to do that. Could someone point me?

BTW, I think that this is a very usefull feature missing; how could we help?

Thanks,
Gilles

Re: AJAX Category Picker suggestions

jayjayecl — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 09:24:59 GMT

Is there any way to get a "Generator" which would be just like this ajax category selector ?
I would like to use it in the web-client-config-custom.xml …
I tried designing it, but I failed.

Here is what I did (from various classes, like CategorySelectorGenerator - the ugly one-, and AjaxTagPickerGenerator …)


public class AjaxCategoryPickerGenerator extends BaseComponentGenerator
{
   public UIComponent generate(FacesContext context, String id)
   {
      UIComponent component = context.getApplication().
            createComponent("org.alfresco.faces.AjaxCategoryPicker");
      FacesHelper.setupComponentId(context, component, id);
      
      return component;
   }

   @Override
   @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
   protected UIComponent createComponent(FacesContext context, UIPropertySheet propertySheet, 
         PropertySheetItem item)
   {
      // the category selector component is used whatever mode the property sheet is in
      return generate(context, item.getName());
   }

   @Override
   protected void setupMandatoryValidation(FacesContext context, UIPropertySheet propertySheet, 
         PropertySheetItem item, UIComponent component, boolean realTimeChecking, String idSuffix)
   {
      if (component instanceof UIMultiValueEditor)
      {
         // Override the setup of the mandatory validation 
         // so we can send the _current_value id suffix.
         // We also enable real time so the page load
         // check disables the ok button if necessary, as the user
         // adds or removes items from the multi value list the 
         // page will be refreshed and therefore re-check the status.
         
         super.setupMandatoryValidation(context, propertySheet, item, 
               component, true, "_current_value");
      }
      else
      {
         // Override the setup of the mandatory validation 
         // so we can send the _selected id suffix.
         // We also enable real time so the page load check disabled
         // the ok button if necessary, as the control is used the
         // page will be refreshed and therefore re-check the status.
         
         super.setupMandatoryValidation(context, propertySheet, item, 
               component, true, "_selected");
      }
   }

   @Override
   protected ControlType getControlType()
   {
      return ControlType.SELECTOR;
   }

   @Override
   protected UIComponent setupMultiValuePropertyIfNecessary(
         FacesContext context, UIPropertySheet propertySheet,
         PropertySheetItem property, PropertyDefinition propertyDef,
         UIComponent component)
   {
      return component;
   }
   
}
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Re: AJAX Category Picker suggestions

nicolasraoul — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:36:30 GMT

Am I missing something, or the multi-selection category chooser did not make it into Alfresco 3.2?

For each category I want to add, I have to
1) Click "Select…"
2) Click "Click here to select a Category"
3) Navigate and click on the "+"
4) Click on "Add to list"

Categories are a great feature, but I feel the UI could be much more efficient.

Re: AJAX Category Picker suggestions

nicolasraoul — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:59:45 GMT

Actually, a different kind of category picker can be seen in the "Advanced search" dialog. It is not more intuitive, but it has multiple select:

1) Click "Click here to select a Category"
2) Navigate and click on the "+" for as many categories as you want
3) Click "OK"
4) Click on "Add to list"