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):
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>MKWS demo client</title>
- <script type="text/javascript" src="http://mkws.indexdata.com/mkws-complete.js"></script>
- <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://mkws.indexdata.com/mkws.css" />
+ <script type="text/javascript" src="//mkws.indexdata.com/mkws-complete.js"></script>
+ <link rel="stylesheet" href="//mkws.indexdata.com/mkws.css" />
</head>
<body>
- <div class="mkwsSearch"></div>
- <div class="mkwsResults"></div>
+ <div class="mkws-search"></div>
+ <div class="mkws-results"></div>
</body>
</html>
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.
+ contains all the JavaScript needed by the widget-set, including a
+ copy of the jQuery library.
* `mkws.css`
provides the default CSS styling
Second, within the HTML body, `<div>` elements with special IDs that
-begin `mkws` can be provided. These are filled in by the MKWS code,
+begin `mkws-` can be provided. These are filled in by the MKWS code,
and provide the components of the searching UI. The very simple
-application above has only two such components: a search box and a
-results area. But more are supported. The main `<div>`s are:
+application above has only two such widgets: a search box and a
+results area. But more are supported.
+
+Defining Widget Elements
+========================
+
+Widget type
+-----------
-* `mkwsSearch` -- provides the search box and button.
+An HTML element is made an MKWS widget by including an MKWS
+class-name. These names begin `mkws-`: what follows that prefix
+specifies the type of the widget. The type can be any sequence of
+alphanumeric characters and hyphens _except_ something beginning
+`team` -- see below.
-* `mkwsResults` -- provides the results area, including a list of
+The main widgets are:
+
+* `mkws-search` -- provides the search box and button.
+
+* `mkws-results` -- provides the results area, including a list of
brief records (which open out into full versions when clicked),
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.
+* `mkws-progress` -- shows a progress bar indicating how many of the
+ targets have responded to the search request.
-* `mkwsSwitch` -- provides links to switch between a view of the
+* `mkws-stat` -- provides a status line summarising the statistics of
+ the various targets.
+
+* `mkws-switch` -- provides links to switch between a view of the
result records and of the targets that provide them. Only
meaningful when `mkwsTargets` is also provided.
-* `mkwsTargets` -- the area where per-target information will appear
+* `mkws-targets` -- the area where per-target information will appear
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.
+* `mkws-lang` -- 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
`<body>` like so:
- <div id="mkwsSwitch"></div>
- <div id="mkwsLang"></div>
- <div id="mkwsSearch"></div>
- <div id="mkwsResults"></div>
- <div id="mkwsTargets"></div>
- <div id="mkwsStat"></div>
+ <div class="mkws-switch"></div>
+ <div class="mkws-lang"></div>
+ <div class="mkws-progress"></div>
+ <div class="mkws-search"></div>
+ <div class="mkws-results"></div>
+ <div class="mkws-targets"></div>
+ <div class="mkws-stat"></div>
+
+The full set of supported widgets is described in the
+reference guide below.
+
+Widget team
+-----------
+
+In general a set of widgets work together in a team: in the example
+above, the search-term that the user enters in the `mkws-search`
+widget is used to generate the set of records that are displayed in
+the `mkws-results` widget.
+
+Sometimes, it's desirable to have multiple teams in a single page. A
+widget can be placed in a named team by giving it (in addition to its
+main class) a class that begins with `mkws-team-`: what follows that
+prefix specifies the team that the widget is part of. For example,
+`<div class="mkws-search mkws-team-aux">` creates a search widget that
+is part of the `aux` team.
+
+Widgets that do not have a team specified (as in the examples above)
+are placed in the team called `AUTO`.
+Old and new-style class-names
+-----------------------------
+
+**NOTE.** Versions of MKWS before v1.0 used camel-case class-names:
+without hyphens and with second and subsequent words capitalised. So
+instead of `mkws-search`, it used to be `mkwsSearch`. And the classes
+used to specify team names used an `mkwsTeam_` prefix (with an
+underscore). So instead of `mkws-team-foo`, it used to be
+`mkwsTeam_foo`.
+
+The 1.x series of MKWS releases recognise these old-style class-names
+as well as the canonical ones, as a facility for backwards
+compatibility. However, **these old class-names are deprecated, and
+support will be removed in v2.0**. Existing applications that use them
+should be upgraded to the new-style class names as soon as convenient.
Configuration
=============
Many aspects of the behaviour of MKWS can be modified by setting
-parameters into the `mkws_config` object. **This must be done *before*
-including the MKWS JavaScript** so that when that code is executed it
-can refer to the configuration values. So the HTML header looks like
-this:
+parameters into the `mkws_config` object. So the HTML header looks
+like this:
<script type="text/javascript">
var mkws_config = {
`mkwsResults` area which contains record, facets, sorting options,
etc., customised layouts may wish to treat each of these components
separately. In this case, `mkwsResults` can be omitted, and the
-following lower-level components provided instead:
+following lower-level widgets provided instead:
* `mkwsTermlists` -- provides the facets
Customisation of MKWS searching widgets can also be achieved by
overriding the styles set in the toolkit's CSS stylesheet. The default
-styles can be inspected in `mkws.css` and overridden in any
+styles can be inspected in [mkws.css](mkws.css)
+and overridden in any
styles that appears later in the HTML than that file. At the simplest
level, this might just mean changing fonts, sizes and colours, but
more fundamental changes are also possible.
documentation](http://handlebarsjs.com/).
The templates used by the core widgets can be viewed in [our git
-repository](http://git.indexdata.com/?p=mkws.git;a=tree;f=src/mkws.templates;).
+repository](http://git.indexdata.com/?p=mkws.git;a=tree;f=src/templates;).
Parameters are documented in a comment at the top of each template so
you can see what's going where. If all you want to do is add a CSS class to
something or change a `span` to a `div` it's easy to just copy the existing
--------------------
To override the template for a widget, include it inline in the document
-as a `<script>` tag marked with a class of `mkwsTemplate_Foo` where Foo is the
+as a `<script>` tag marked with a class of `mkws-template-foo` where foo is the
name of the template you want to override (typically the name of the widget).
Inline Handlebars templates are distinguished from Javascript via a
`type="text/x-handlebars-template"` attribute. For example, to override the
-Pager template you would include this in your document:
+pager template you would include this in your document:
- <script class="mkwsTemplate_Pager" type="text/x-handlebars-template">
+ <script class="mkws-template-pager" type="text/x-handlebars-template">
...new Pager template
</script>
The Facet template has a special feature where you can override it on a
per-facet basis by adding a dash and the facet name as a suffix eg.
-`Facet-Subjects` rather than `Facet`. (So `class="mkwsTemplate_Facet-Subjects"`)
+`facet-subjects` rather than `facet`. (So `class="mkws-template-facet-subjects"`)
You can also explicitly specify a different template for a particular instance
of a widget by providing the name of your alternative (eg. SpecialPager) as the
value of the `template` key in the MKWS config object for that widget:
-for example, `<div class="mkwsPager" template="specialPager"/>`.
+for example, `<div class="mkws-pager" template="special-pager"/>`.
Templates for MKWS can also be
[precompiled](http://handlebarsjs.com/precompilation.html). If a precompiled
MKWS makes requests to Service Proxy or Pazpar2 that perform the actual
searching. Depending on how these are configured and what is available from the
targets you are searching there may be more data available than what is
-presented by the default templates. In this case, you can redefine the
-`Record` template to include more fields in the full-record popup.
+presented by the default templates.
Handlebars offers a convenient log helper that will output the contents of a
variable for you to inspect. This lets you look at exactly what is being
here's a Records template that will link directly to the source via the address
provided in the metadata as the first element of `md-electronic-url`:
- <script class="mkwsTemplate_Records" type="text/x-handlebars-template">
+ <script class="mkws-template-records" type="text/x-handlebars-template">
{{#each hits}}
<div class="{{containerClass}}">
<a href="{{md-electronic-url.[0]}}">
search is made.
-Responsive design
------------------
-
-Metasearching applications may need to appear differently on
-small-screened mobile devices, or change their appearance when
-screen-width changes (as when a small device is rotated). To achieve
-this, MKWS supports responsive design which will move the termlists to
-the bottom on narrow screens and to the sidebar on wide screens.
-
-To turn on this behaviour, set the `responsive_design_width` to the desired
-threshhold width in pixels. For example:
-
- <script type="text/javascript">
- var mkws_config = {
- responsive_design_width: 990
- };
- </script>
-
-If individual result-related components are in use in place of the
-all-in-one mkwsResults, then the redesigned application needs to
-specify the locations where the termlists should appear in both
-cases. In this case, wrap the wide-screen `mkwsTermlists` element in a
-`mkwsTermlists-Container-wide` element; and provide an
-`mkwsTermlists-Container-narrow` element in the place where the narrow-screen
-termlists should appear.
-
-
Popup results with jQuery UI
----------------------------
The [jQuery UI library](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JQuery_UI)
-can be used to construct MKWS applications in which the only component
+can be used to construct MKWS applications in which the only widget
generally visible on the page is a search box, and the results appear
in a popup. The key part of such an application is this invocation of
the MKWS jQuery plugin:
In order to override the default CSS styles provided by the MasterKey Widget
Set, it's necessary to understand that structure of the HTML elements that are
-generated within the components. This knowledge make it possible, for example,
+generated within the widgets. This knowledge make it possible, for example,
to style each `<div>` with class `term` but only when it occurs inside an
element with ID `#mkwsTermlists`, so as to avoid inadvertently styling other
elements using the same class in the non-MKWS parts of the page.
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