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Notebooks are created with the wiki tag:

{{display_notebook}}

• Notebooks are made up of any number of cells
• A cell has an input area and an output area
  • The input area can be shown or hidden
  • To toggle the input click on the header above the menubar
  • Click on the link to show the notebook menu.
  • A notebook can be laid out horizontally (like this) or vertically
  • A message console is shown at the bottom of the notebook
• Cells can contain any number of chunks of different types -
  • HTML, wiki text, markdown, raw text, special shell and fetch commands, Javascript and Python.
  • The different chunks within a cell are delineated with "%% type", e.g. "%%html"
  • Markdown and HTML chunks feature wysiwig editing
  • Evaluate the current chunk and step to the next chunk with shift-return.
  • Evaluate the whole cell or the whole notebook with the links above

A notebook can be created for any entry with the following wiki text:

{{display_notebook showMenu="false" showTitle="false"}}

Notebooks are always associated with an entry. You can have multiple notebooks for an entry using the notebookId attribute:

//This is the default notebook
{{display_notebook showMenu="false" showTitle="false"}}

{{display_notebook notebookId="notebook2" showMenu="false" showTitle="false"}}

{{display_notebook notebookId="notebook3" showMenu="false" showTitle="false"}}

When a notebook is saved (see below) it is saved as a JSON file and is attached to the entry as a property. The notebook file be accessed and/or deleted through the entry's Edit Properties menu.

A notebook is made up of a number of notebook cells. Initially there is just one cell. Each cell has an input area, output area and cell menu. The menu can either be accessed through the Notebook menu or from the left side link that is shown on mouseover:

The icons on the left allow you to popup the cell menu, show the cell input, run the cell and run all cells. The menubar at the top of the input area is just RAMADADA's wiki text menu bar. Use the following tags to denote and separate the contents within a notebook cell:

The input of a notebook cell can be any combination of html, wiki text, markdown, raw text, javascript, python, or special "shell" commands and "fetch" commands. The input can either be all one type or a mix of different input types. Each type is delineated by a "%%".

%% html
Regular html text

%% css
CSS

%% wiki
RAMADDA wiki text

%% md
Markdown text

%% fetch
Fetch commands

%% js
Javascript

%% py
Javascript

%% sh
Shell commands

%% fetch
Fetch commands

%% raw
Raw text

A command can be on the same line

%% html some html
%% wiki some wiki
%% js some javascript

Within a cell there is an entry context, a number of entries that can be accessed within the javascript input and that the wiki is created from. The following entries are available:

• "base" - This is the entry that the notebook is defined for
• "current" - The current entry. By default this the base entry base entry but can be changed with the shell commands.
• "parent" - the parent of the current entry
• "root" - the top-level entry

To specify html text start the input with "%% html".

%% html
html text

To specify wiki text start the input with "%% wiki" -

%% wiki
RAMADDA wiki text

The wiki text is just regular RAMADDA wiki text. More information here. To specify markdown text start the input with "%% md" -

%% md
# markdown 1
# markdown 2

The fetch command allow you to import javascript, css or html files

%% fetch
js: /url/to/javascript
css: /url/to/css
html: /url/to/html

You can also load the contents of a RAMADDA entry file by providing the entry id or path names as defined for the shell commands below

%%fetch
text: somevar=3cc5aa82-7fac-467d-b285-5212625296d6
text: somevar=../../files/file.txt
text: somevar=files/file.txt
...

To specify shell text start the input with "%% sh" -

%% sh
shell commands

The shell commands allow for easy navigation around the RAMADDA entry hierarchy. The following shell commands are supported. All of the "cd" commands change the cell's current entry.

%% sh
#change current entry to the base entry
cd  

#change current entry to the root
cd  /

#change current entry to the parent of the current entry
cd  ..


#change current entry to the parent of the parent of the current entry
cd  ../..

#change current entry to the "Test" entry under the root
cd  /Test

#change current entry to the first entry found under the root with name that begins with "foo" 
cd  /foo*

#change current entry to the first entry found under the root with name that ends with "bar" 
cd  /*bar

#change current entry to the "Test" entry relative to the current entry
cd  ../Test

#change current entry to the child of the current entry with name "Child" 
cd  Child

#change current entry to the grandchild entry with name "Grandchild" 
cd  Child/Grandchild

#print the current entry
pwd

#show the children tree of the current entry
ls

#print output
echo any output


#shell commands can be on one line, e.g.:
cd /;pwd;ls;cd;pwd

To specify javascript start the input with "%% js" -

%% js
javascript code

Javacsript input comes in 3 forms - single line expression, single line with a return or multiple lines with a return. For example, the below will display the number "3":

%% js
1+2

Here is a single line with a return:

%% js
return "some string"

Here is a multiple line input:

%% js
var x;
x = 1+2;
return x;

The javascript input can have function definitions:

%% js
function result() {
   return "the result";
}
return result();

There are a number of helper functions and pre-defined variables that can be accessed from javascript. The above described entry context can be accessed with the variables:

%% js
base
current
parent
root

The state object holds the state of this JS cell execution and provides a number of methods.

%% js
//TODO

%% js
state.getCell() // return the cell
state.getNotebook() // return the cell
state.clear() //clear the output
state.ls() //List the current entry
state.stop() //Stop cell execution

//make wiki text. This is applicable to the current entry if the 
//optionalEntry is not provided. If optionalCallback is not provided then 
//the wiki text is displayed on the page. Else the wiki text is passed to
//the callback
state.wiki(wikiText,optionalEntry,optionalCallback); 

state.write(html); //write the html to the page

Putting the entry state and the functions together we can do:

state.write(base.getName());
state.write(root.getName());
state.write(current.getName());
state.write(parent.getName());

//Create wiki text for the given entry
state.wiki("{{tree}}", current);
state.wiki(":title {{name}}", root);

The notebook Python runs in the browser using the Skulpt package. To specify python start the input with "%% py" -

%% py
print "hello world"

The plugin chunk type allows you to define new languages. This follows the Iodide Plugins model.

%% plugin
{
  "languageId": "jsx",
  "displayName": "React JSX",
  "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hamilton/iodide-jsx/master/docs/evaluate-jsx.js",
  "module": "jsx",
  "evaluator": "evaluateJSX",
  "pluginType": "language"
}

To run a notebook cell either press shift-return in the cell input area or choose "Run This Cell" in the notebook menu. All of the cells can be run through the notebook menu with the "Run All" command. A notebook can be configured to run all of the cells when the notebook is first loaded through the "Run on load" command in the notebook menu. The notebook menu allows one to configure the display and behavior of individual cells or all of the cells.

• Cell name: Name the current cell. The name is shown in the header (see below)
• Run: Either run the current cell or run all cells
• New cell: Create a new cell either above the current cell or below the current cell
• Clear: Clear the output for the current cell or for all cells
• Move: Move the current cell either up or down. Note: when in the cell input pressing control-^ will move the cell up. Pressing control-v will move the cell down.
• Show
  • Edit: Show the input edit field
  • Header: Show the header. Only the cell name is shown in the header
  • Border: display a line border between cells
• Inputs: Show or hide all of the input fields
• Run on load: Run all of the cells when the notebook is first viewed
• Display mode: When true don't show any input fields or the left side menu if the user is not logged in
• Save notebook: Save the notebook either without or with the generated output. It is suggested that notebooks are saved without output and that the cells are ran on notebook load. This is due to that some of the notebook operations (notably javascript) don't get recreated correctly with just the notebook output saved
• Delete: Delete this cell
• Help: Show this help

Cell values can be used as macros in other cells. There are 2 ways of doing this. First, you can set the name of a cell (through the popup menu) to be some macro name, e.g., the_value. The cells that define the macro values need to be run before the cells that reference the macro values. Do this by setting the "Run first" checkbox in the source cell's menu.

Assume we have cell content as some html, and the name of the cell is "the_value", e.g.:

%%html
Some html

In another cell you can insert the HTML with the macro:

%%html
Some other cell
Here is the macro: ${the_value}

If you have a JS cell then the "the_value" will be set as a variable that can be referenced, e.g.:

%%js
var x = the_value;

The macro values can also be set within a cell using the "raw" chunk type by adding a var=<var name> line like:

%%raw var=id
Some macro value