Stream: implementers
Topic: Canonical doesn't have a display
Travis Stenerson (Jun 26 2018 at 17:33):
I'm trying to put together an example PlanDefinition and I've just noticed the switch to Canonical replacing Reference(ActivityDefinition). Two questions.
1. Is there somewhere I can read about the reasons for the change, ie a tracker item or documentation of canonical vs reference.
2. This complicates by ability to show off the resulting structure because it won't have a display field like a reference does. Is there a suggested workaround for this? I suppose when actually rendering this thing you could call the canonical and get the activity description, is that the intended way to display what the activity is?
- just realized the PlanDef.action has the text equivalent, making the display redundant, and so my second question is covered. I would still like to read about canonical vs reference however
Lloyd McKenzie (Jun 26 2018 at 18:12):
The tracker number is GF#12902. We also agreed to add an extension for canonical allowing display names to be conveyed along with the URL and will explicitly reference its existence in the usage notes for canonical.
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