Customising value displays

[Rob Atkinson]

Poking around in code and docs I can see the SWP based ui:instanceView (though I dont see this in the SWP uispin.org documentation)

What I want to do is control the rendering of specific properties (in general I want to be able to link between objects in different asset collections effectively jump to customised functionality for different asset collections - basically use the SWP ui:createLink functionality...

I can only see how to override the whole form for a class, not a property. 

I see property viewers like dash:ImageViewer as instance of dashViewer - but not find how these are bound to particular property types - and as they are wrappers for java implementations no see how to add customised ones.

And I guess with 6.3 and the React editors some or all of this may be obsoleted anyway?

Is there a way to control the rendering of a particular property without overriding a whole class form, and is that mechanism even safe to use going forwards?

Ta

[Holger Knublauch]

On 24/03/2020 17:20, Rob Atkinson wrote:
> Poking around in code and docs I can see the SWP based ui:instanceView
> (though I dont see this in the SWP uispin.org documentation)

https://uispin.org/ui.html#instanceView

>
> What I want to do is control the rendering of specific properties (in
> general I want to be able to link between objects in different asset
> collections effectively jump to customised functionality for different
> asset collections - basically use the SWP ui:createLink functionality...
>
> I can only see how to override the whole form for a class, not a
> property.
> I see property viewers like dash:ImageViewer as instance of dashViewer
> - but not find how these are bound to particular property types - and
> as they are wrappers for java implementations no see how to add
> customised ones.
>
> And I guess with 6.3 and the React editors some or all of this may be
> obsoleted anyway?
>
> Is there a way to control the rendering of a particular property
> without overriding a whole class form, and is that mechanism even safe
> to use going forwards?

Assuming you want to continue with SWP for now: In the property shapes,
use tosh:viewWidget to point at a subclass of swa:ObjectViewer (there
are plenty of examples if you open teamwork.ui.ttlx). In the
ui:prototype of that you can use ui:createLink or whatever to open an
external browser tab. This solution (with tosh:viewWidget) is going to
remain supported for a while.

The longer-term alternative would indeed be the React componentry and
dash:viewer.

Holger

[Rob Atkinson]

Thanks Holger - that got this going

If I may post a follow up

What I want to do is display a set of properties for this node - I was presuming I'd be able to find the right widget 

after a bit of experimentation I managed to get ui:resourceView to work to display and instance of a blank node (the provenance activity injected into an asset collection FYI)  by attaching something via ui:instanceView to the class of the blank node... but not been able to identify what thing I'd need to reference to render a form using a relevant set of SHACL shapes. There are so many things that look like they might be relevant - but many of them would call ui:resourceView so must be at a different level of the architecture. Is there indeed some element that renders an object using a set of shapes that can be customised by enabling/disabling property shapes and making propertyshape widget choices?

I think I need something similar to the class hierarchy at https://uispin.org/ui.html#view to explain which types of things fit where. 

I included the set of shapes I wanted to use into the current queryGraph - but is there another way to tell something to use a specific set of shapes? 

[Holger Knublauch]

On 25/03/2020 16:45, Rob Atkinson wrote:

Thanks Holger - that got this going

If I may post a follow up

What I want to do is display a set of properties for this node - I was presuming I'd be able to find the right widget 

after a bit of experimentation I managed to get ui:resourceView to work to display and instance of a blank node (the provenance activity injected into an asset collection FYI)  by attaching something via ui:instanceView to the class of the blank node... but not been able to identify what thing I'd need to reference to render a form using a relevant set of SHACL shapes. There are so many things that look like they might be relevant - but many of them would call ui:resourceView so must be at a different level of the architecture. Is there indeed some element that renders an object using a set of shapes that can be customised by enabling/disabling property shapes and making propertyshape widget choices?

No, none that would survive the SWA decimation in 6.4.

I think I need something similar to the class hierarchy at https://uispin.org/ui.html#view to explain which types of things fit where. 

I included the set of shapes I wanted to use into the current queryGraph - but is there another way to tell something to use a specific set of shapes?

I am not sure I can follow your question. Can you sketch the expected output with an example?

Holger

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