FHIR Chat · IG Editor

Stream: pascal

Topic: IG Editor

Jose Costa Teixeira (Aug 14 2018 at 05:18):

I pushed some changes to IG Editor. It is a simple resource editor with a few extra features (still WIP):
1. Can import page content (including images) from word documents. Seemed easier and better than making a wysiwyg editor.
2. "Publish" button that will handle the publishing part:
- setup a few folders for storing the content that is referenced in the IG (pages, resources) in one location
- setup the Publishing framework - includes feature to download that framework to the current folder

Jose Costa Teixeira (Aug 14 2018 at 05:20):

my choice was to allow the editor to work autonomously, but the extra features (import and publish) require additional stuff that can be downloaded. If a user does not use the "publish" button, he gets a simple editor. If he does want to use publishing, he will get an additional set of files in a folder.

Jose Costa Teixeira (Aug 14 2018 at 05:24):

basic stuff only works on windows (perhaps at this stage only works on my pc). I have some questions and open issues like
- since the IG Publisher takes the src folder, this means that if I am working on 2 different IGs, I need two folders with the publishing framework. Perhaps we can tell the IG builder that the src folder is under another parent folder. That would save disk space.
- Need to add a lot of content (including finding a good UI for editing CodeableConcepts)

Jose Costa Teixeira (Aug 14 2018 at 05:26):

the importing of word content adds pandoc as a dependency. I have to learn how to handle licensing stuff, but pandoc may also be useful for another thing - push the output to a PDF.

Jose Costa Teixeira (Aug 14 2018 at 05:26):

that's it for today. Any comments welcome.

Jose Costa Teixeira (Sep 27 2018 at 15:38):

I am cleaning the IG editor and I would like to make a generic "deleteThisItem" method. Is there anything I can reuse for that ?

Grahame Grieve (Sep 27 2018 at 16:38):

what would it do?

Jose Costa Teixeira (Sep 27 2018 at 16:50):

delete the tvStructure.Selected.tagObject

Jose Costa Teixeira (Sep 27 2018 at 17:02):

nevermind, i forgot .dropEmpty

Jose Costa Teixeira (Sep 27 2018 at 17:08):

hmm.. should dropEmpty delete the object and its children or only the children?

Grahame Grieve (Sep 27 2018 at 19:58):

only if they are empty.

Jose Costa Teixeira (Sep 30 2018 at 18:22):

committed the IG Editor, i got the most basic stuff working. It now allows to add definition, packages, resources, pages. Can import pages from docx (if Pandoc is available) and can trigger a build.

Jose Costa Teixeira (Sep 30 2018 at 18:22):

it needs a lot of clean up but i need a fresh mind for that.

Jose Costa Teixeira (Oct 15 2018 at 05:58):

IG Publisher is working, including local build and git pull-commit-push. For this I needed the IG Publisher template to get files from another location (not ./src) so I changed the framework.

Grahame Grieve (Oct 15 2018 at 05:58):

why did you need that ?

Jose Costa Teixeira (Oct 15 2018 at 06:06):

Next improvements:
1 exception handling and things like disabling buttons if conditions are not met (e.g. disabling "publish" buton if there is no publisher)
2 Supporting the entire ImplementationGuide elements (for now only supports definition)
3 How to put items in my comboboxes automatically from the Enum types, not hardcoded (e.g. how can i initialize a dropdown with all the values in TFHIRGuidePageGenerationEnum)
4 How to have an editor work on their pages on top of a boilerplate - e.g. the user would add more pages but the default IHE pages for index, toc, how-to-read, copyright info... are always there
5 Adding Pandoc download to the mix - currently convert word docs to cml works, only if pandoc is already installed.
6 Adding Portable Jekyll to the mix (it is working but the download is several hundred MBs and i'm not sure how to get it to download the content directly from the git repository)
7 get some sleep

Grahame Grieve (Oct 15 2018 at 06:07):

CODES_TFHIRGuidePageGenerationEnum ...

Grahame Grieve (Oct 15 2018 at 06:07):

Sleep is overrated :-)

Grahame Grieve (Oct 15 2018 at 06:07):

(saying that having just had a 2 hour nap in the middle of the day)

Jose Costa Teixeira (Oct 15 2018 at 06:08):

if I am working on 5 IGs on my PC, i do not want to have 5 instances of the publisher

Jose Costa Teixeira (Oct 15 2018 at 06:19):

@Grahame Grieve for #4 i have no idea if the IG publisher already supports it.

Jose Costa Teixeira (Oct 15 2018 at 06:20):

(and i have no idea how to do it, but can figure out)

Jose Costa Teixeira (Jan 17 2019 at 13:30):

I think we should add the possibility to do git pull/commit/push to the toolkit (not to the IG). instead of opening an IG file you may want to open a repository and then open the IG file.

Jose Costa Teixeira (Jan 17 2019 at 13:30):

this may be needed also for exampleScenario editor, or for other resources

Jose Costa Teixeira (Jan 17 2019 at 13:30):

thoughts on whether / how ?

Jose Costa Teixeira (Jan 17 2019 at 13:32):

we currently have two lists in the toolkit main screen : servers and files. We could add a "repositories" list.

Grahame Grieve (Jan 17 2019 at 14:20):

sounds like a lot of work; I always avoid using the built in git support in products anyway

Jose Costa Teixeira (Jan 18 2019 at 05:34):

Not sure i understand how you see it and what is a lot of work. To use git I just launch dos console commands

Jose Costa Teixeira (Jan 18 2019 at 05:35):

so in a very basic solution i would need to have a list of folders instead of a list of files, then when i select a folder, i run git commands in there

Grahame Grieve (Jan 18 2019 at 09:44):

ok. I don't really imagine a UI for this?

Jose Costa Teixeira (Jan 21 2019 at 06:47):

One way would be to have a list of packages (not sure npm packages) and when i open one of those I get all my files in a folder.

Jose Costa Teixeira (Jan 21 2019 at 06:51):

Another would be when can open a ig, it would contain an extension that tells where the entire source package is. Source = XHTML + images + resources...