From: Mike Taylor Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 02:08:40 +0000 (+0100) Subject: Rejuggle all heading levels. We now use H1, which we didn't before. X-Git-Tag: 1.0.0~369^2~1 X-Git-Url: http://jsfdemo.indexdata.com/cgi-bin?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f1b90c1b1c6d143d54c4a5752546100836117a9a;p=mkws-moved-to-github.git Rejuggle all heading levels. We now use H1, which we didn't before. --- diff --git a/doc/mkws-manual.markdown b/doc/mkws-manual.markdown index 631cf01..c4ddeb7 100644 --- a/doc/mkws-manual.markdown +++ b/doc/mkws-manual.markdown @@ -2,8 +2,9 @@ % Mike Taylor % 30 July 2014 + Introduction ------------- +============ There are lots of practical problems in building resource discovery solutions. One of the biggest, and most ubiquitous is incorporating @@ -44,7 +45,7 @@ can be embedded: search-boxes, results areas, target information, etc. Simple Example --------------- +============== The following is a complete MKWS-based searching application: @@ -123,8 +124,9 @@ To see all of these working together, just put them all into the HTML
+ Configuration -------------- +============= Many aspects of the behaviour of MKWS can be modified by setting parameters into the `mkws_config` object. **This must be done *before* @@ -151,7 +153,7 @@ reference guide below. Control over HTML and CSS -------------------------- +========================= More sophisticated applications will not simply place the `
`s together, but position them carefully within an existing page @@ -191,10 +193,11 @@ reference guide below. Refinements ------------ +=========== -### Message of the day +Message of the day +------------------ Some applications might like to open with content in the area that will subsequently be filled with result-records -- a message of the @@ -204,7 +207,8 @@ day, a welcome message or a help page. This can be done by placing an search is made. -### Customised display using Handlebars templates +Customised display using Handlebars templates +--------------------------------------------- Certain aspects of the widget-set's display can be customised by providing Handlebars templates with well-known classes that begin with @@ -238,7 +242,8 @@ For details of Handlebars template syntax, see [the online documentation](http://handlebarsjs.com/). -### Responsive design +Responsive design +----------------- Metasearching applications may need to appear differently on small-screened mobile devices, or change their appearance when @@ -264,7 +269,8 @@ cases. In this case, wrap the wide-screen `mkwsTermlists` element in a termlists should appear. -### Popup results with jQuery UI +Popup results with jQuery UI +---------------------------- The [jQuery UI library](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JQuery_UI) can be used to construct MKWS applications in which the only component @@ -285,7 +291,8 @@ The necessary scaffolding can be seen in an example application, http://example.indexdata.com/index-popup.html -### Authentication and target configuration +Authentication and target configuration +--------------------------------------- By default, MKWS configures itself to use a demonstration account on a service hosted by mkws.indexdata.com. This account (username `demo`, @@ -301,7 +308,7 @@ resources). For information on how to do this, see the next section. MKWS Target Selection ---------------------- +===================== MKWS accesses targets using the Pazpar2 metasearching engine. Although Pazpar2 can be used directly, using a statically configured set of @@ -315,7 +322,8 @@ MKWS application to that library, and how to choose which of the available targets to use. -### Maintaining the library +Maintaining the library +----------------------- The service proxy accesses sets of targets that are known as "libraries". In general, each customer will have their own library, @@ -353,7 +361,8 @@ the library. The authentication process, described below, works by searching for a matching User Access record. -### Authenticating your MWKS application onto the library +Authenticating your MWKS application onto the library +----------------------------------------------------- Some MKWS applications will be content to use the default library with its selection of targets. Most, though, will want to define their own @@ -365,7 +374,8 @@ unauthorised access. Setting up such a library is a process of several stages. -#### Create the User Access account +### Create the User Access account + Log in to MKAdmin administrate your library: @@ -404,7 +414,7 @@ You can create multiple User Access records: for example, one that uses Referring URL, and another that uses a username/password pair to be used when running an application from a different URL. -#### Tell the application to use the library +### Tell the application to use the library In the HTML of the application, tell MKWS to authenticate on to the Service Proxy. When IP-based, referer-based or hostname-based @@ -420,7 +430,7 @@ authentication is used, this is very simple: And ensure that access to the MWKS application is from the correct Referrer URL or IP-range. -#### (Optional): access by a different virtual hostname +### (Optional): access by a different virtual hostname When hostname-based authentication is in use, it's necessary to access the Service Proxy as the correctly named virtual host. This can be @@ -434,7 +444,7 @@ URL containing that hostname, such as > TODO When changing the SP authentication URL, the Pazpar2 URL should > in general change along with it. -#### (Optional): embed credentials for access to the library +### (Optional): embed credentials for access to the library When credential-based authentication is in use (username and password), it's necessary to pass these credentials into the Service @@ -445,7 +455,7 @@ by setting the `service_proxy_auth` configuration item to a URL such as > TODO It should be possible to add the username and password to the > configuration without needing to repeat the rest of the URL. -#### (Optional): conceal credentials from HTML source +### (Optional): conceal credentials from HTML source Using a credential-based Service-Proxy authentication URL such as the one above reveals the the credentials to public view -- to anyone who @@ -472,7 +482,8 @@ yourname.com: (e.g. using a .htaccess file). -### Choosing targets from the library +Choosing targets from the library +--------------------------------- MKWS applications can choose what subset of the library's targets to use, by means of several alternative settings on individual widgets or @@ -508,9 +519,10 @@ attribute as follows: Reference Guide ---------------- +=============== -### Configuration object +Configuration object +-------------------- The configuration object `mkws_config` may be created before including the MKWS JavaScript code to modify default behaviour. This structure @@ -591,7 +603,7 @@ for the language menu. But for now we retain these, as an easier route to lightly customise the display than my changing providing a full HTML structure. -#### Notes +### Notes 1. ["sources", "subjects", "authors"] @@ -606,7 +618,8 @@ structure. 6. [["relevance"], ["title:1", "title"], ["date:0", "newest"], ["date:1", "oldest"]] -### Language specification +Language specification +---------------------- Support for another UI language can be added by providing an entry in the `mkws_config` object whose name is `language_` followed by the @@ -656,7 +669,8 @@ and -### jQuery UI popup invocation +jQuery UI popup invocation +-------------------------- The MasterKey Widget Set can be invoked in a popup window on top of the page. @@ -695,7 +709,8 @@ popup_autoOpen string 1 Open popup window on load. Valid values are ---- -### The structure of the HTML generated by the MKWS widgets +The structure of the HTML generated by the MKWS widgets +------------------------------------------------------- In order to override the default CSS styles provided by the MasterKey Widget Set, it's necessary to understand that structure of the HTML elements that are