Exhibit/Tile View

From SIMILE Widgets

To add a tile view to your exhibit, add

  <div ex:role="view"></div>

Settings include:

setting name	type of value	default	choices	meaning
ex:label	text	"Tiles"		The title of the view, used for the navigation link.
ex:orders	list of expressions	.label		comma separated list of one or more expressions, e.g., ".age, .job"
ex:directions	list of "ascending" or "descending"	ascending		how to sort each of the expressions in the ex:orders setting
ex:possibleOrders	list of expressions			comma separated list of other expressions that the user can choose for sorting
ex:possibleDirections	list of "ascending" or "descending"			how each of the expressions in the ex:possibleOrders setting should be sorted when the user picks it
ex:showAll	boolean	true		whether to show all items (or just the first few); this is forced to true if ex:grouped is true and the items can be grouped
ex:grouped	boolean	true		whether to show items in groups if they are "equal" in the current sorting order
ex:showDuplicates	boolean	true		whether to hide or show multiple copies of the same item if it fits in multiple positions in the sort/group order
ex:abbreviatedCount	int	10		how many items to show if ex:showAll is false
ex:showHeader	boolean	true		hide or show the header
ex:showSummary	boolean	true		hide or show the # of results
ex:showControls	boolean	true		hide or show the controls
ex:showFooter	boolean	true		hide or show the Footer
ex:paginate	boolean	false		Group results into pages, that can be navigated backward or forward
ex:pageSize	int	20		Number of results to show on each page, if paginate = true
ex:pageWindow	int	2
ex:page	int	0
ex:alwaysShowPagingControls	boolean	false
ex:pagingControlLocations	setting	topbottom	"top", "bottom" or "topbottom"	Location of page controls

Views can be restricted to show objects of a certain type by using Collections.