[cme-dev] Contributing Views to CME

[Philip Quitslund <pq@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

I'm interested in adding a view to CME.  (This view is much like the 
ConcernExplorer view but with some extended features.)  Before I do too much 
hacking I thought I'd best put the question to you: is there no clean way to do 
this, or am I missing something?

I ask because things look pretty hard-wired at first blush: the CMEPlugin 
contains references to the ConcernExplorer, SearchView and ResultsView (without 
any clear mechanism for adding others) while ConmanBuilder explicitly sets the 
ConcernExplorer's input after building the concern model, etc.

There are a number of ways to address this (if it's seen as a short-coming)... 
Before I speculate though, I wonder if this is a desired feature.  Should 
clients be able to do this kind of thing?  (I think so! ;))

Has anyone thought about this?  If not and assuming there is interest, I'd be 
happy to draft a proposal for how this support might be added to start the 
conversation.

Thanks!


-phil