[ckan-dev] Saving "state" for changes to Recline

Mon Dec 3 21:47:58 UTC 2012

Thanks Rufus. Your notes are a great time-saver. I'll post my progress if
I've got anything useful to share as I dig into this.

-Aaron

On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>wrote:

> On 3 December 2012 14:16, Aaron Couch <acinternets at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I think it would be a really powerful feature if one could save changes
>> that had been made to a Recline visualization through the user interface.
>> An example would be changing the default number of records returned from
>> 100 to 200 or saving certain settings to a Graph or Map view.
>
>
> This is already supported with the name "State" ;-) See for example the
> discussion here:
>
> http://reclinejs.com/docs/views.html
>
> And this example of gathering all state data together in multiview:
>
> https://github.com/okfn/recline/blob/master/src/view.multiview.js#L351
>
> You can obviously just do it per view e.g. for the graph view:
>
> graphView.state.toJSON()
>
> Should do what you want ...
>
> Rufus
>
>
>> From the CMS side this seems feasible as you could save and pass certain
>> variables for each dataset.
>>
>> Does anyone know if this is possible, and if so, what the best approach
>> would be on the Recline side? Has this been done or discussed before? I'd
>> be interested in helping develop a solution.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -Aaron
>>
>> Aaron Couch
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