On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 9:50 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On 8 Oct 2014 at 06:24:53, Jason Clemons > ([email protected](mailto:[email protected])) wrote: > >> I'd like to do the same :) >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: users [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bryn Jeffries >> Sent: Tuesday, October 7, 2014 8:54 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [xwiki-users] DBlist with external query data? >> >> Please forgive my ignorance, but is it possible to use DBList with queries >> to other databases? I'd very much like to use this element populated with >> the results from a query to another database running on the same server as >> XWiki, but the only documentation I can find describes queries of the XWiki >> database. > > No, you cannot do that with DBList. It’s expecting a HQL query actually (and > we’ve been needing to add support for XWQL too for a very long time). > > Another direction could be to look at adding a new type for that, see > http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/CreatingNewXClassPropertyTypes > (I don’t know if it would work though, it may be too tied to the XWiki data > model).
You don't really need a complete new type, you can provide a custom displayer for your field. See "Custom Display" property in the field definition in your class. > > Too bad that Computed Field only supports one value... > > Thanks > -Vincent > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
