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-% Embedded metasearching with the MasterKey Widget Set
+% The MKWS manual: embedded metasearching with the MasterKey Widget Set
% Mike Taylor
-% 30 July 2014
+% October 2014
Introduction
@@ -19,10 +19,14 @@ Index Data provides several different toolkits for communicating with
its metasearching middleware, trading off varying degrees of
flexibility against convenience:
-* pz2.js -- a low-level JavaScript library for interrogating the
- Service Proxy and Pazpar2. It allows the HTML/JavaScript programmer
- to create JavaScript applications display facets, records, etc. that
- are fetched from the metasearching middleware.
+* [pz2.js](http://www.indexdata.com/pazpar2/doc/ajaxdev.html) --
+ a low-level JavaScript library for interrogating the
+ [Service Proxy](http://www.indexdata.com/service-proxy/)
+ and
+ [Pazpar2](http://www.indexdata.com/pazpar2/).
+ It allows the HTML/JavaScript programmer
+ to create JavaScript applications to display facets, records,
+ etc. that are fetched from the metasearching middleware.
* masterkey-ui-core -- a higher-level, complex JavaScript library that
uses pz2.js to provide the pieces needed for building a
@@ -30,14 +34,17 @@ flexibility against convenience:
* MasterKey Demo UI -- an example of a searching application built on
top of masterkey-ui-core. Available as a public demo at
- http://mk2.indexdata.com/
+
-* MKDru -- a toolkit for embedding MasterKey-like searching into
- Drupal sites.
+* [MKDru](http://www.indexdata.com/masterkey-drupal) --
+ a toolkit for embedding MasterKey-like searching into
+ [Drupal](https://www.drupal.org/)
+ sites.
All of these approaches require programming to a greater or lesser
-extent. Against this backdrop, we introduced MKWS (the MasterKey
-Widget Set) -- a set of simple, very high-level HTML+CSS+JavaScript
+extent. Against this backdrop, we introduced
+[MKWS (the MasterKey Widget Set)](http://mkws.indexdata.com/)
+-- a set of simple, very high-level HTML+CSS+JavaScript
components that can be incorporated into any web-site to provide
MasterKey searching facilities. By placing `
`s with well-known
MKWS classes in any HTML page, the various components of an application
@@ -47,14 +54,15 @@ can be embedded: search-boxes, results areas, target information, etc.
Simple Example
==============
-The following is a complete MKWS-based searching application:
+The following is
+[a complete MKWS-based searching application](//example.indexdata.com/simple.html):
MKWS demo client
-
-
+
+
@@ -63,10 +71,9 @@ The following is a complete MKWS-based searching application:
Go ahead, try it! Simply put the above in a file (e.g index.html),
-drop it into a folder accessible with an ordinary web-server (e.g Apache)
-and load it in your web browser (and no, usually, you can't just load the file
-directly from disk as some browsers, e.g Chrome, won't allow storing cookies).
-Just like that, you have working metasearching.
+drop it into a folder accessible with an ordinary web-server (e.g
+Apache) and load it in your web browser. Just like that, you have
+working metasearching.
How the example works
---------------------
@@ -77,7 +84,7 @@ you: the `` element at the top level contains a `` and a
page, you can add MKWS elements.
These fall into two categories. First, the prerequisites in the HTML
-header, which are loaded from the tool site mkws.indexdata.com:
+header, which are loaded from the tool site `mkws.indexdata.com`:
* `mkws-complete.js`
contains all the JavaScript needed by the widget-set.
@@ -98,9 +105,8 @@ results area. But more are supported. The main `
`s are:
paging for large results sets, facets for refining a search,
sorting facilities, etc.
-* `mkwsLang` -- provides links to switch between one of several
- different UI languages. By default, English, Danish and German are
- provided.
+* `mkwsStat` --provides a status line summarising the statistics of
+ the various targets.
* `mkwsSwitch` -- provides links to switch between a view of the
result records and of the targets that provide them. Only
@@ -110,8 +116,9 @@ results area. But more are supported. The main `
`s are:
when selected by the link in the `mkwsSwitch` area. Of interest
mostly for fault diagnosis rather than for end-users.
-* `mkwsStat` --provides a status line summarising the statistics of
- the various targets.
+* `mkwsLang` -- provides links to switch between one of several
+ different UI languages. By default, English, Danish and German are
+ provided.
To see all of these working together, just put them all into the HTML
`` like so:
@@ -855,4 +862,4 @@ and .CLASS indicates an instance of a class.
- - -
-Copyright (C) 2013-2014 by Index Data ApS,
+Copyright (C) 2013-2014 Index Data ApS.