Difference between revisions of "Virtual collection (extension point)"

Latest revision as of 10:38, 14 May 2013

Identifier

ru.biosoft.access.virtualCollection

Plugin

ru.biosoft.access

Since

0.9.3

[edit] Description

Virtual collection is root data collection which contains links to another collections. This can be useful for defining custom perspectives.

[edit] Configuration markup

<!ELEMENT folder (folder|link)*>
 <!ATTLIST folder
    name       CDATA    #REQUIRED
>

name

virtual folder name

<!ELEMENT link>
 <!ATTLIST link
    name       CDATA    #REQUIRED
    target     CDATA    #REQUIRED
>

name

link folder name

target

path to existing data collection in the tree.

[edit] Example

<extension id="GtrdCollection" point="ru.biosoft.access.virtualCollection">
   <folder name="GTRD">
      <link name="GTRD database" target="databases/GTRD"/>
      <link name="BSA analyses" target="analyses/Methods/BSA"/>
   </folder>
</extension>

This extension defines virtual collection "GTRD", which contains two links: "GTRD database" and "BSA analyses".