Re: [myexperiment-hackers] virtual_hosts

[Don Cruickshank]

Hi Finn,

I agree about having a helper function to determine the required layout.  Could 
you change the option be a drop-down box instead of a checkbox?

The options you'd have in it depends on your group memberships.  So if you are 
a member of the e-LICO group then you get the option to use the e-LICO template 
when uploading or managing a workflow.  I envisage the settings file would have 
a group number stored with each virtual host so that it would be easy for the 
system to find out which ones are relevant to the user.

e-LICO is the only virtual host so far, so feel free to rearrange the settings 
structure to suit.

Cheers,
Don.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden
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> On Behalf Of Finn Bacall
> Sent: 19 October 2011 13:40
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: [myexperiment-hackers] virtual_hosts
> 
> Hi guys,
> 
> I'm planning on changing how myexperiment chooses what page layout to
> use. At the moment, this is decided before a request is passed through to a
> controller action (by looking at the request URL, referrer, etc.).
> 
> For e-LICO, I'm adding in an option (a small checkbox) that will be displayed 
> in
> the "sharing" section of the workflow creation/update form, that allows a
> user to indicate that they want their workflow to be rendered in a custom
> layout (like how the e-LICO group page looks at the moment).
> 
> The issue with doing this in the current system, is that I need to access to 
> the
> workflow object to check which layout the user has specified to use, and this
> isn't fetched until the controller action is processed. My solution is to 
> create a
> helper method to choose which layout to display, which is called by the view.
> This ensures the controller action has already run and I have access to the
> workflow object.
> 
> Before I do this it would be good to hear any criticisms/suggestions.
> I'd also like to know if there are other "virtual hosts" in-use other than e-
> LICO, as I was considering moving settings purely to do with the
> layout/stylesheet into a different section in the "settings" YAML file.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -Finn
> 
> --
> Finn Bacall
> School of Computer Science
> University of Manchester
> 
> 
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