Default values per line about moodle-atto_generico

[justinhunt]

Thanks for the observation Mark.

Actually the ability to create dropdown lists is quite recent, so the long, long string is a new thing. Until now it was just width=400,height=300 kind of properties. Let me put your suggestion in the "to do" basket. It is probably best not to allow commas AND new lines as delimiters. So it might be that in the settings we offer up the option to choose/specify the delimiter.

(Note you should be able to enclose default values in double quotes now too. Not sure if that helps ...)

[whanrott]

Hi Justin,
May I also suggest that you allow key-value pairs so that we can provide user friendly identifiers. I'm adding fontawesome icons so I don't have control over the inserted values.
Thanks, Will

[justinhunt]

Can you give me an example of what you are suggesting. The generico filter string and defaults are already key=value. Is it something apart from this?

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[whanrott]

I am extending your fontawesome bundle. The fontawesome icon names are obscure so I wanted to present a user friendly name in the select option which is part of the modal Enter Preferences dialog box. For example fa-user-md would be displayed as "Clinical Relevance" for users in the modal box.

[justinhunt]

You can do this but it might get a bit complicated. The values from the dropdown are inserted into the filter string that appears in the html editor text area. Those are just loaded as-is into the html string we put on the page. If you want to use "clinical relevance" you will need to intervene with javascript to run some sort of switch case statement that inserts fa-user-md when it sees "clinical relevance".

In PoodLL/ Generico I don't have any plan to add a dropdown list "labels" feature for this sort of case. If a lot of people wanted it though, its possible. Generico is already a lot more complicated than I wanted it to be. And all the fields are a bit confusing for template authors.

One solution to your current problem would be to have a separate Generico template for each font awesome icon that you had the need to use. Then the user could just choose the appropriate button from the popup dialog.

Or you could add instructions in the instructions area explaining what each selection means.

It might even be possible to be sneaky and make the choices you specify in the defaults area include a label, like this:
icon="fa-user-md (Clinical Relevance)|fa-cog (Settings)"
But I have not tried that