I'm wondering if anyone knows of a list posted anywhere that has all the properties for oracle forms (6i preferably) items and the names I need to use to get them via the get_item_propery() function. We have some books on oracle forms at work but none of them seem to have a comprehensive list of properties. I've also googled it, but maybe I'm google impaired on this particular topic.
Failing finding a complete list, does anyone know what the property name for an item's comments would be, assuming I can get it?
Did you check the online help that comes with Oracle Forms? Launch Forms builder, Hit Ctrl+H & search for get_item_property, you'll get a list of all item properties.
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I am doing some volunteer work for a charity that is using a couple online systems that store their donors and related data. I would like to find a way to store a URL as a custom field in such a way that they can put corresponding links between donors in one of the systems in order to quickly find the same donor in another system. The only built-in method in the products being used is to store a single value in a field labeled "website" which is originally intended to store a value for any website associated with the donor. I would like to avoid using this field if possible and instead create a custom field.
However, the rub is the custom fields only have a handful of options (clear text, date, currency, etc). There is no option to store a URL or something like rich text). I've thought of a couple less optimal ways to make the values stored in those fields clickable (a browser plugin or a proxy) however both of those have obvious drawbacks that I would like to avoid.
What I am wondering and hoping someone has a possible answer for, is if there are an ways of storing a value in a clear text field that might disrupt or escape the underlying html encoding such that the displayed link is clickable. I already control the values being put into these fields (users cannot enter their own values, they are essentially read-only), so security isn't much of a concern.
I have very limited access or influence to have any system level changes, however I would like to make this possible as it would help them a great deal (their users are all volunteers with limited time and education). I've tried a few tricks but havn't found anything that doesn't get converted to unicode or escaped (it could be that it's completely controlled for at output, i simply don't know).
My current attempts have been limited to using the built in forms submission, I may explore their import and/or API methods on the theory that might allow better low-level access to storing the actual values in the system, however I'm still not certain what to try other than adding .
I have also tried an inline script to add the corresponding tab, however that seems to break the form submission method (perhaps it'll work via csv import or via the API)
Does anyone have suggestions for other things I could try before I go any further? I'm a bit of a novice and feel like there may be something else obvious I haven't tried.
I'm trying to search WikiNews, both for specific news stories and for the latest headlines. I've been reading about the MediaWiki API (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page), but it doesn't seem to map to what I'm trying to do.
Taking two examples, I need to be able to get the latest headlines (ideally for a specific region (United States, France, Great Britain etc) and for a specific topic (Finance, Sport, Media etc), but right now I'd settle for just getting the latest stories regardless. I've tried a couple of things:
https://en.wikinews.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=categories&clprop=timestamp&format=json
just returns batchcomplete
http://en.wikinews.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=recentchanges&rnnamespace=0 looks like it might be more promising, but only if I could filter only to show news stories - and show a good deal more than it currently does. Clearly it would also be desirable to add parameters for location / story type in the query rather than filtering them after the list is received.
With regard to searching, I've had even less luck. I've tried searching on a topic that I know is ~~causing trouble~~ making the news:
https://en.wikinews.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=Donald_Trump&prop=revisions&rvprop=content&format=json&redirects&continue the return is not a list of stories!
Has anyone searched WikiNews? Does anyone have any suggestions to achieve what I need to do?
action=query&format=json&list=search&redirects=1&srsearch="Donald Trump" -incategory:disputed incategory:"August_25, _2016|August_24,_2016|August_23,_2016|August_22,_2016|August_21,_2016|August_20,_2016|August_19,_2016|August_18,_2016"&srnamespace=0&srenablerewrites=1 will search for articles from the last few days mentioning Trump. (See full docs on what keywords can be used in a search query.)
Most of your examples do not actually generate a list (you can see from the lack of a list parameter); they expect one or more article name via the titles parameter and return information about those. Your second example is valid (except the correct parameter name is rcnamespace) but that returns recently edited articles, which is a very random way of trying to find news on a topic.
In general it seems like you are trying to randomly guess what the API modules do. Did you miss the docs and sandbox?
I am working on a user-moderated database and settled on MediaWiki with Semantic MediaWiki as an engine. I installed Semantic Forms to force the end users to conform to a certain standard when creating or editing entries. The problem is that since a user can add a semantic notation to any form text input it can throw off the proper structure of the system, i.e. if it was an IMDB clone a user can add [[Directed by:Forest Gump]] which would then result in the movie "Forest Gump" showing up under a list of directors.
I doubt that there's any setting that can simply turn this off or on, but I've had one or two ideas as to how to get it working.
One, perhaps there's a way to disable semantic notation on specific namespaces and put the forms on those namespaces. I have a feeling that this will cause the forms to merely break.
Another idea is to modify the code. This is clearly the less ideal approach. To get started, I believe I would need to create some sort of filter on SFTextAreaInput which would disable semantic notations for the user inserted text, but alas I'm unsure as to how to get started on that.
Well, Semantic MediaWiki is still a Wiki. In your classical enterprise database, you restrict the users' input options as a means of ensuring data integrity. That isn't what wikis do; the thinking with a wiki is, yes, the user can enter incorrect information, but another user will amend it and let the first user know what was wrong.
I wouldn't try to coerce SMW into rigid data acquisition. I mean, you do have options such as removing the standard input fields in forms:
'''Free text:'''
{{{standard input|free text|rows=10}}}
If users are selecting a movie page when they should be selecting a director page, then you probably want to encourage correct selection by populating the form control from the Directors category, like:
{{{field|Director|input type=combobox|values from category=Directors}}}
Yes, they can still go very far out of their way to select "Forrest Gump", but if that happens then the fact that someone wilfully circumvented the preselected correct options is a more pressing concern than the fact that the system permits it.
Wikis work best when the system encourages rather than enforces valid knowledge.
My name is Wolfgang Fahl I am behind the smartMediaWiki approach. You might want to go the smartMediaWiki route
see
http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Spring_2015/smartMediaWiki
For a start don't go just by the property values but e.g. also by a category.
{{#ask: [[Category:Movie]] [[Directed by::+]]
|?Directed by
}}
will only show pages that have both the property set and are in the correct category.
In the smartMediaWiki approach you'd create a topic "Movie" and the entry of movies would be done via Forms. This is an elaboration of the SemanticForms and semantic PageSchemas idea that recently evolved. You can find out more about this at SMWCon Barcelona 2015 this fall.
Recently objects with the type 'web_link' started showing up in the items for some of the users that we work with. This currently messes with our application because we expect a 'size' field in all of the entries that Box returns and the 'web_link' type apparently doesn't have a size. I was wondering firstly why this was happening, I think it might be part of some older API that got exposed recent. I am also not sure how to replicate it since the Box API documentation doesn't mention anything about them. Right now our work around will be to just filter the response on our end, but it would be nice to let our users know how they could find and clean up these old objects if they don't need them, so is there a way to specifically search for them?
Our webapp allows users to create "weblinks" that are links to any URL they might come across on the internet.
They only show up in the folder listing API, and they are only used by a small % of users. We may remove them sometime in the near future, which is why they are not included in the documentation.
I have an application in which i am trying to create autocompletion of jTextField and jTable from database values as we do in address bar of browsers. I tried many ways,but i couldnt complete it. Do any one know how to do this in a simple way, the links and notes which i had got was quite confusing for me. I am using java and MySQl in netbeans.Hoping a reply soon..
Thank you
You can give JIDE JIDE Common Layer at http://www.jidesoft.com/products/oss.htm a try. It is free and open source. There are two features you might be interested in. Both are in JIDE Common Layer. One is AutoCompletion feature which can auto-complete based on a known list while you are typing (no drop down). The other is IntelliHint feature which will show a list of matching choices in a drop down while you are typing. Since you mention something like address bar of a browser, I would recommend IntelliHint. Hope it helps.