On 8 Oct 2014 at 10:01:52, Thomas Mortagne
([email protected](mailto:[email protected])) wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 9:59 AM, Thomas Mortagne
> wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 9:50 AM, [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.
And once you’ve succeeded you could publish a code snippet on
extensions.xwiki.org to help others in the future! :)
Thanks
-Vincent
> >> Too bad that Computed Field only supports one value...
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >> -Vincent
> >>
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