Forum OpenACS Development: Re: OpenACS Attribute Management - Requirements/Requests

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31: Re: OpenACS Attribute Management - Requirements/Requests (response to 1)
Posted by Richard Hamilton on 12/14/04 05:37 PM
Frank,

We have been around this loop once already. Please refer to the AMS Requirements document again and you will notice a reference to OMS - the planned Object Management System or 'Dynamic Types' as it may be called.

This is what you will need - when it is done. We have been careful to eliminate overlap.

Regards
Richard

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32: Re: Re: OpenACS Attribute Management - Requirements/Requests (response to 31)
Posted by Frank Bergmann on 12/15/04 12:45 PM
Hi Richard,

thanks for the reply. Yes, I've seen that you have mentioned the OMS in "the specs".

So it looks as if we would then have to go ahead with our stuff, because we need a rasonable "extensible architecture" within the next few weeks for a new project: https://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=239510

According to our current roadmap, we're probably just going to add some extra functionality to the existing acs_attributes mechanism:

- Extend the "acs_attributes mechanism" to objects different from subtypes of "group"
- Add some suitable maintenance screens
- Add the AMS widgets to acs_attributes, probably using the ams_attributes table
- Add some absolute/relative positioning to ad_form
- Maybe create a simple "form designer" to store ad_form fields plus absolute/relative positioning in the database

Our main focus will be to create a production-ready system ASAP. This means that we will not necessarily priorize "generality".

I understand that these extensions are more or less orthogonal to the AMS functionality, right? So by using
the AMS table structure we should be pretty much prepared to integrate these two development branches in the future, is that right?

One importante point though: We will need to remove any dependency on the "postal-address" and the "ref-*" modules from the AMS, so we are going to create a branch of the AMS, based on your current version.

Bests,
Frank