dynamic batch connect apps

[johrstrom]

I know we've talked about this, but I don't know if there's any ticket for the actual feature. Looks like we worked on #513 but decided against it, though I'm not sure if we decided against the approach in the PR or the idea altogether.

We have a similar approach in our own BC apps, so maybe our jquery javascript approach may be mature enough.

I think the result could be something like setting for node types.

    options:
      - [
          "any",     "any",
          data-min-ppn-for-cluster-owens: 1,
          data-max-ppn-for-cluster-owens: 28,
          data-min-ppn-for-cluster-pitzer: 1,
          data-max-ppn-for-cluster-pitzer: 48,
          data-option-for-cluster-owens: true,
          data-option-for-cluster-pitzer: true
        ]

data-option-for-<ATTRIBUTE>-<ATTRIBUTE VALUE>

• would register a handler and show/disable the given option or field when the attribute changed to the specific value. We do this now in our batch connect apps.

data-[min,max]-<CORES ATTRIBUTE>-for-<CHANGE ATTRIBUTE>-<ATTRIBUTE VALUE>

• would register a handler to change the mins and maxes of CORES ATTRIBUTE when CHANGE ATTRIBUTE is set to CHANGE ATTRIBUTE VALUE.

These are common patterns we see all the time, needing to hide something based off of a selected value and changing mins and maxes. Is this approach generic enough to pick up other use cases? maybe not, but maybe we don't need to worry about every use case just yet. This may provide a lot of value for folks.

Here's what's complete and what's still to do.

• js to auto populate values #1447
• automatic js handlers for min & max #1431
• automatic js handlers for hiding form items #1432
• batch connect auto add change handlers #1380
• can't set min/max for multiple things at a time #2115

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[johrstrom]

I'm going to break this ticket up. options for handlers were added in #1380, we'll make other tickets for other features.

[johrstrom]

This is actually in 2.0 as well, but will be in 2.1 with some bugfixes that 2.0 may not have.