Avoiding hard coding of fields on advanced search page

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Author Name: Xiangqing Yang (@xyang02)
Original Redmine Issue: 3546, https://redmine.hmdc.harvard.edu/issues/3546
Original Date: 2014-02-12
Original Assignee: Kevin Condon

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This request is from Phil.
Hi Xiangqing,

Gustavo and I just talked about how this might be something you could
help with, especially since you share an office with Stephen:

"Also, I'm hoping that I'll be able to pull the metadata for each
domain (astro, biomedical, etc.) programatically rather than hard
coding each domain's fields into the xhtml (hence all the FIXME's
about populating the fields). Ideally, when we add a new domain (i.e.
neuroscience) we won't have to touch the xhtml of the Advanced Search
Page. Ideally, the list of fields is retrievable programatically and
put in a JSF dataTable."

Right now we see...

• Social Science Metadata (FIXME: populate with full list of fields)
• Biomedical Metadata (FIXME: populate with full list of fields)
• Astrophysics Metadata (FIXME: populate with full list of fields)

... at http://dvn-build.hmdc.harvard.edu/search/advanced.xhtml

Something to think about. :)

Cc'ing Gustavo and Stephen to keep them in the loop.

Phil

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Original Redmine Comment
Author Name: Xiangqing Yang (@xyang02)
Original Date: 2014-02-12T21:29:22Z

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Feature is added and the code has been checked in. Please test.

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Original Redmine Comment
Author Name: Xiangqing Yang (@xyang02)
Original Date: 2014-02-13T15:47:20Z

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The feature is implemented. But not all of the domain metadata are in the db yet. Phil suggested to test it until the data is all ready. So change the status back to dev.

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Original Redmine Comment
Author Name: Gustavo Durand (@scolapasta)
Original Date: 2014-03-10T20:49:40Z

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Passing back to QA. The advanced search page should now be working as data driven. You should see values where advanced search = true. To test, you can flip one in db and see that it either now shows (or does not show).

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Original Redmine Comment
Author Name: Kevin Condon (@kcondon)
Original Date: 2014-03-12T23:32:33Z

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Tested on 3/12

Yes, fields are dynamic/ data driven.

Closing ticket