User story #5352: Into a metadata.xml, possiblity to make reference into an SELECT tag from an INPUT/SELECT one. - Rudder - Issue Tracker

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Into a metadata.xml, possiblity to make reference into an SELECT tag from an INPUT/SELECT one.

Added by Nicolas PERRON over 10 years ago. Updated about 1 year ago.

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It would be great if it was to possible to make a reference from an SELECT tag from an INPUT/SELECT tag. It would permit to write relations between INPUT or SECTIONS.
As an example:

Instead of

<SECTION name="screen" multivalued="yes">

  <INPUT name="INPUT_1" description="My first input" />

  <SELECT1 name="INPUT_2">
    <ITEM>
      <LABEL>Option1</LABEL>
      <VALUE>value1</VALUE>
    </ITEM>
    <ITEM>
      <LABEL>Option2</LABEL>
      <VALUE>value2</VALUE>
    </ITEM>
    <CONSTRAINT>
       <DEFAULT>value1</DEFAULT>
     </CONSTRAINT>
   </SELECT1>
</SECTION>

to write this:

<SECTION name="screen" multivalued="yes">

  <INPUT name="INPUT_1" description="My first input" />

  <SELECT1 name="INPUT_2">
    <ITEM>
      <LABEL>Option1</LABEL>
      <VALUE>value1</VALUE>
    </ITEM>
    <ITEM>
      <LABEL>Option2</LABEL>
      <VALUE>INPUT_1.value</VALUE>
    </ITEM>
    <CONSTRAINT>
       <DEFAULT>value1</DEFAULT>
     </CONSTRAINT>
   </SELECT1>
</SECTION>

Then the value of Option2 would be dynamic.

Is it clear ? What's your opinion about it François ?

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Updated by François ARMAND over 10 years ago

This is something we want to do since a lot of time. There is likelly to be already open ticket for that, but I can't find them right now.

Is there a specific use case ?

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Updated by Matthieu C over 10 years ago

It would be even better like this:

<SECTION name="screen" multivalued="yes">

  <INPUT name="INPUT_1" description="My first input" />

  <SELECT1 name="INPUT_2" description="My second input" getvaluesfrom="INPUT_1" />
</SECTION>

There is a specific case, configuring multiple monitors with Xorg:

INPUT: Video output name
SELECT1: Above/Below/RightOf/LeftOf (relative position of output)
SELECT1: -- list of output --

In Rudder webui, when creating a directive, first INPUT_2 is empty, then it has 1 value (the value of the first instance of INPUT_1).
When adding a new value, by clicking on "Add another", the webui would look like:

screen #1
---------------
Video output name: | HDMI1 |
Relative position: |     |v| <--- the combobox list "Above/Below/RightOf/LeftOf" (static)
Reference        : |     |v| <--- the combobox should list "HDMI1/HDMI2" (dynamic)

screen #2
---------------
Video outmut name: | HDMI2 |
Relative position: |     |v| <--- the combobox list "Above/Below/RightOf/LeftOf" (static)
Reference        : |     |v| <--- the combobox should list "HDMI1/HDMI2" (dynamic)

                            | Add another | | Delete |

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