On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 9:59 AM, Thomas Mortagne <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
See http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/User+Property+Custom+Display for example for an example of custom field displayer. > >> >> 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 -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
