S3HierarchyWidget

Introduction

The S3HierarchyWidget class provides a drop-down options widget with a folder-tree style menu for hierarchical lookup fields.

It is used for both CRUD form widgets (both directly and inline link), as well as a filter widget (S3HierarchyFilter).

Python Widget Class

The S3HierarchyWidget (modules/s3/s3widgets.py) uses the S3Hierarchy toolkit to extract hierarchy information for the lookup table and to render it as a nested unsorted list (<ul>), then instantiates an s3.hierarchicalopts widget (static/scripts/s3/s3.jquery.ui.hierarchicalopts.js).

It is currently used in 3 different use-cases:

• S3HierarchyWidget (directly as CRUD widget)
• S3HierarchyFilter (filter widget)
• S3SQLInlineLink (inline-widget to create link table entries to a hierarchical lookup table)

See S3/S3Hierarchy how to configure the hierarchy for the lookup table.

Currently, the S3HierarchyWidget does not yet support custom hierarchy data.

JQuery UI Widget

s3.hierarchicalopts (in static/scripts/S3/s3.jquery.ui.hierarchicalopts.js) is a JQuery UI widget that implements the drop-down button, the folder-tree style appearance of the menu and all interactions with the hierarchical selector.

Styling

The hierarchy widget consists of two parts: the button and the hierarchical menu.

The style of the button is controlled by the global jQuery UI theme (ui-widget and related CSS classes).

The hierarchical menu has its own CSS theme, the default theme is located in static/styles/jstree/default. Custom themes can be derived from this, and then configured via a deployment setting:

# Set a theme relative to the static/styles/jstree folder
settings.ui.hierarchy_theme = "default"

To hold the hierarchy theme e.g. in a template, specify a pathname relative to the application folder instead:

# Set a theme relative to the application folder
settings.ui.hierarchy_theme = "modules/templates/TEMPLATE/theme/hierarchy"

See Also

• Hierarchy Toolkit
• S3HierarchyFilter
• S3HierarchyCRUD

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• S3 API Guide
• DeveloperGuidelines