Facility Control

Hi Gentlemen

I have attached a picture to assist in understanding my query.

As in the picture, I have a player dropdown.

This dropdown represents the players number and name.

Would it be possible to enter all player info into XML format and have this dropdown read it?

Hi Dennis.
Here is an example of how to load this kind of data:

<abs contexttype="opengear" style="">
   <meta>
      <params>
         <param access="1" constrainttype="INT_CHOICE" name="Constraint From XML" oid="Constraint_From_XML" precision="0" type="INT32" value="0" widget="combo">
            <constraint key="0">Nothing</constraint>
         </param>
      </params>
      <ogscript handles="onload">var newConstraint = params.createIntChoiceConstraint(["Nothing"]);
params.replaceConstraint('Constraint_From_XML', newConstraint);</ogscript>
   </meta>
   <param expand="true" height="90" left="32" oid="Constraint_From_XML" top="48" width="626"/>
   <button buttontype="push" height="95" left="673" name="Load" top="47" width="183">
      <task tasktype="ogscript">var xmlDocument = ogscript.parseXML('data.xml');         //Parse the XML
var nodeList = xmlDocument.getElementsByTagName("team"); //Get the tags we want to include in the constraint

var constraintData = [];   //Placeholder for the new constraint data

if (constraintData.length == 0)  //Placeholder if we don't have anything (OPTIONAL)
{
   constraintData.push({"key": 0, "value": "Nothing"});
}

for (var i = 0; i &lt; nodeList.getLength(); i++)           //Loop through each tag we found
{
   var node = nodeList.item(i);                          //Get the node
   constraintData.push({"key": parseInt(node.getAttribute("ID")), "value": node.getAttribute("name")});  //Push the key/value pair
}


var constraint = params.createIntChoiceConstraint(constraintData);   //Create the constraint
params.replaceConstraint("Constraint_From_XML", constraint);         //Replace the constraint</task>
   </button>
</abs>

The relevant bit is attached to the button:

var xmlDocument = ogscript.parseXML('data.xml');         //Parse the XML
var nodeList = xmlDocument.getElementsByTagName("team"); //Get the tags we want to include in the constraint

var constraintData = [];   //Placeholder for the new constraint data

if (constraintData.length == 0)  //Placeholder if we don't have anything (OPTIONAL)
{
   constraintData.push({"key": 0, "value": "Nothing"});
}

for (var i = 0; i < nodeList.getLength(); i++)           //Loop through each tag we found
{
   var node = nodeList.item(i);                          //Get the node
   constraintData.push({"key": parseInt(node.getAttribute("ID")), "value": node.getAttribute("name")});  //Push the key/value pair
}


var constraint = params.createIntChoiceConstraint(constraintData);   //Create the constraint
params.replaceConstraint("Constraint_From_XML", constraint);         //Replace the constraint

Here is the example XML data I was working with (I had it saved in a file called data.xml)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<teams>
    <team ID="1" name="Red Team"/>
    <team ID="2" name="Blue Team"/>
    <team ID="3" name="Green Team"/>
</teams>

Hi James

Thank you for this. It works very well. I have a related question, please see the images.

I have created a separate tab to load players for each match, I now would like to add the players to my main scoring TAB but as READ ONLY bars. For some reason this is not possible, do you have any suggestions?

Picture 1: Showing how I have created my dropdowns which function well

Picture 2: My parameter window does not show the parameters.

Picture 3: Where I would like to put all players in 'Read only'