Inline Queries (Limiting Characters Returned)

[robertuva]

I was wondering if there is a way to show a limited number of
characters for the value of a specific property in an inline (ask)
query.  So for example, if I had an inline query that was going to
bring back the value for "longDescription", and the value brought back
would normally be:

This is the long description.  It has many more characters than I
would want to bring back.

And I wanted to just bring back let's say the first ten characters of
the value such as:

This is th

Would this be possible?

Thanks!

Bobby

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[Robert Murphy-3]

I think what you're looking for might have to be done with StringFunctions, another extension:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:StringFunctions

It has a function #sub that returns part of a string.  That would probably do what you need.

-Robert

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Bobby S <bobbys@...> wrote:

I was wondering if there is a way to show a limited number of
characters for the value of a specific property in an inline (ask)
query.  So for example, if I had an inline query that was going to
bring back the value for "longDescription", and the value brought back
would normally be:

This is the long description.  It has many more characters than I
would want to bring back.

And I wanted to just bring back let's say the first ten characters of
the value such as:

This is th

Would this be possible?

Thanks!

Bobby

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[Markus Krötzsch-2]

On Freitag, 27. Juni 2008, Robert Murphy wrote:
> I think what you're looking for might have to be done with StringFunctions,
> another extension:
>
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:StringFunctions
>
> It has a function #sub that returns part of a string.  That would probably
> do what you need.

Indeed that would work (use the "template" option in SMW queries to use a
custom template for formatting query results).

We could also have parameters (of many kinds) for a single printout statement
to make some such settings, but I have no good idea for the syntax yet. We
would need a way to add parameters to an #ask printout line such as "?long
description", where the general current syntax is:

"?property#unit = label"

So it's not quite clear where to put additional parameters in a readable
syntax. Other intersting parameters for single printouts would be "limit"
and "sep" (separator string for multiple values of one property).

-- Markus

>
> -Robert
>
> On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Bobby S <bobbys@...> wrote:
> > I was wondering if there is a way to show a limited number of
> > characters for the value of a specific property in an inline (ask)
> > query.  So for example, if I had an inline query that was going to
> > bring back the value for "longDescription", and the value brought back
> > would normally be:
> >
> > This is the long description.  It has many more characters than I
> > would want to bring back.
> >
> > And I wanted to just bring back let's say the first ten characters of
> > the value such as:
> >
> > This is th
> >
> > Would this be possible?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Bobby
> >
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