Dynamic updating of custom item titles

[quant]

Originally posted by kinook
It was an oversight that custom titles don't display the title properly for an info item type attribute (instead, it displays the path of item IDs for the item). We do intend to rectify that.

that's good news, but please, if possible, create some way for updating/refreshing the titles. Even now, if I move the item on which another item's title is based, the title is not updated. Say in the example ashwken provided, the title is
2008-06-27 - 1029,1026,1000
but if I move item with id 1029 to another directory, the item title does not reflect this change.

I understand that this kind of dynamic titles can become quite complicated (imagine title based on another item's title and that title based on another item's attributes, etc ...) so by changing one items attributes, hundreds of other items titles could/should be updated to reflect the change. If this refreshing is not implemented, users would see sth that does not reflect the database state, and this would not be only misleading, but simply incorrect.

Thank you, and good luck ;-)

[quant]

Originally posted by ashwken
Also fixed the Title Expression quirks, thanks.

yes, but no updating of it. It wouldn't need to be fully automated, at least it should work when user does "refresh all". As it is now, "what you see is not what you get", the database frontend that UR provides is not consistent with what's inside the database, that's a fundamental flaw, ... I don't like it

[ashwken]

Originally posted by quant
yes, but no updating of it. It wouldn't need to be fully automated, at least it should work when user does "refresh all". As it is now, "what you see is not what you get", the database frontend that UR provides is not consistent with what's inside the database, that's a fundamental flaw, ... I don't like it

Yes, some method of Item Title updating (refresh or re-calc that forces a Title Update) is needed.

As a stop gap this will work:

Create an Attribute [Update_Title] (Category = Update, no KW, no Auto-Complete).

Assign this Attribute to the Template of the Items you wish to re-Title.

Add this string to the end of the Title Expression for the Item's Template:

|| trim(coalesce([Update_Title],''))

Search for (Item) is (Template - chose from pick list), or if all the Items are in the same location - select all Items.

From the IA Pane (Ctrl-4) add a space character to the [Update_Title] Attribute and the selected Items will be re-titled.

The space character will be trimmed out of the returned Title Expression, or no value will be returned for new Items (or delete the string from the Title Expression and the [Update_Title] Attrribute after usage).

If an Info Item was used in the Title Expression for the Item (previously returned node ID) this will "pull in" the Item Title value for the Info Item portion of the Title Expression.

EDIT: spelling

[ashwken]

Kinook,

Thanks for cleaning this up and pulling it together.