Doc206: ProductAlpha Sidebar Example

Title: ProductAlpha Sidebar Example

The Alpha Dashboard sidebar example is an article written with Traction's Rapid Selector language. This example has examples of links that point directly to a single article, to a multi entry view based on one label (i.e feature), and examples of links that point to a multi-entry view based on a combination of labels. One example with a combination of labels is V2 ToDo, which displays everything marked Feature, with the ToDo and V2 label on the same paragraph.

Here is the article itself, in a single entry view:

When you tell Traction to make it a sidebar entry, it appears in smaller form in the sidebar. Notice that elements like author, date, Traction ID, related entries, and attachments do not appear.

Example Rapid Selector Text

Following are the lines of text in the article, ProductAlpha56. The bullets describe the function of each line.

Link to a single article, and cancel any existing searches.

[[Link 'Alpha PRD' productalpha74 ()]]

Link to all items in this project with the feature label. Views over All time in Brief, and cancel any existing searches.

[[link 'Features' :feature all brief ()]]

Link to all items in this project with the feature label, and show only those paragraphs that have the V2 and Todo label. Displays in brief over all time.

[[link 'V2 ToDo' :feature ab i((:v2 AND :todo ))]]

Link to all items in this project with the feature label, and show only those paragraphs that have a label with more text than V2 (i.e. V2_1) and Todo label. Displays in brief over all time.

[[link 'V2+ ToDo' :feature ab i((:v2* AND :todo ))]]

Link to all items in the ProductAlpha project with the feature label, and show only those paragraphs that are marked Todo but do not have any Version label. Displays in brief over all time. Note: Expressions that use NOT consume more resources than those that use AND.

[[link 'Unallocated ToDo' ::productalpha :feature ab i((:todo AND (NOT :V* AND NOT :V2* )))]]

Link to all articles in this project with the feature:idea label and all articles in ANY project with the feedback label. Displays in brief over all time. Cancels any existing searches.

[[link 'Feature Ideas' :feature:idea ::*:feedback ab ()]]

Group By X and Requiring Y Syntax

Traction presents the results in reverse chronological order. You may want to group the results in your view based on a set of labels. Currently, Traction has a feature capable of grouping results by a specified label and restricting results to only those articles with a certain label.

Until the feature is exposed, you can expose the functionality by adding the following text to the URL Traction generates for a multi-entry view, e.g. the view of all articles with the feature label:

&groupby=v1,v2,v3

This will clump the results into a an initial group with the label v1, a second group with the label v2, etc.

&requiring=todo

Adding this will further constrain the overall view to only those items marked with the ToDo label.

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Date: March 22, 2008; 4:12:24 PM Eastern Daylight Time

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