Extensions: Script Explorer

Motivation

Once you start developing custom content and take advantage of the powerful scripting, notification, and scheduling engine - you'll have scripts everywhere.

We thought it would be nice to expose just scripts in an easier way and be able to click to get them loaded in the mini-ide.

Solution

The Script Explorer is a custom component that lets you explore and access scripts accross your complete model, image below.

Usage

To install the extension you need access to the administrator section of your CMS:

1. Grab the zip file below and drag it into the Extensions->Manage->Install page.
2. Access the Script Explorer by browsing to ... thinkiq.net/?option=com_scriptexplorer.
3. Even better, create a menu link.

Download extension package here: scriptexplorer.zip

Under the Hood

The GraphQL query to retrieve scripts looks like this:

query getScripts{
    things(condition: { systemType: "script" }) {
        id
        displayName
        relativeName
        fqnList
        partOf {
            id
            displayName
            fqnList
        }
    }
}

Roadmap

• as is - this page is quiet helpful, but it wants to have a search feature.
• in it's current version, the GraphQL api does not expose the scripts table.
  If it did, we could filter the whole page down to scripts by type - that would be neat.