looping information collections

Friday 18 August 2006 3:43:20 am

Hi

I must be completely missing the point here.

I have objects with information collectors. They collect information - I can see the collection in the admin (setup/collected info).

To set up some similar display in my design, I assumed a fetch would be available to get the Collected Information from an object or an attribute. Even a fetch to get all collections, or a fetch to get a count of all collections would do. Or some attribute on the object or attribute pointing to the collections of that object or attribute. But there isn't any of those ?

There is

- a fetch for an information collection given the collection id and object id
http://ez.no/doc/ez_publish/technical_manual/3_8/reference/modules/content/fetch_functions/collected_info_collection

- a count fetch for the number of information collections given a object id or attribute id
http://ez.no/doc/ez_publish/technical_manual/3_8/reference/modules/content/fetch_functions/collected_info_count

- a confusing kind of fetch used to do statistics given an attribute id
http://ez.no/doc/ez_publish/technical_manual/3_8/reference/modules/content/fetch_functions/collected_info_count_list

These are all quite useless in a template unless you happen to create a poll :-)

The admin page use a plain sql query behind the scenes, and tuck the results in a template variable before parsing the template. To mimic that, I have to create an extension.

Am I missing something ?

thanks,
*-pike

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Friday 18 August 2006 11:25:36 am

There is a little bug in the above

$collection=fetch( 'content', 'collected_info_collection', hash( 'collection_id',$collidx,'contentobject_id', $node.object.id )

returns collection $collidx regardless of $node.object.id, not false()
in ezp 3.7.6

since this 'feature' is not documented,
we should run the test ourself, using

 {if and($collection,eq($collection.contentobject_id, $node.object.id))}
	<!-- collection is from this object -->
       {set $collections = $collections | append($collection) }
{else}
       <!-- collection is not from this object -->
{/if}

and lament the wasted cpucycles ..

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Friday 18 August 2006 3:15:11 pm

I've put the template source here, but it was too big too be usefull. Too bad there are no attachments in this forum. I felt like sharing today ! Now, I since can not remove this message, I'm typing this here. Ignore :-)

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