Forum OpenACS Development: Re: Saving List Views (add to core?)

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4: Re: Saving List Views (add to core?) (response to 1)
Posted by Dave Bauer on 08/09/07 05:36 PM
It just seems strange to add a new content type in the acs-templating package. I think using the CR makes sense. I am thinking we'll just store a huge tcl list in the content column since there really isn't any way to make a data model for filters. For example, one applicaiton filters on all the questions in an assessment, so there is no way to create a column for each filter since they are unique per list.
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5: Re: Saving List Views (add to core?) (response to 4)
Posted by Malte Sussdorff on 08/09/07 07:17 PM
You could do it this way, but I would still prefer the settings for orderby and the like to be in separate columns so not to parse the large list in the content block every time. Filters is obviously a list of lists (filter name, filter value), but having a list of list of lists is a little bit too listy for make liking.

Why does it feel strange to add a new content type ?