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+<#-- $This file is distributed under the terms of the license in /doc/license.txt$ -->
+
+<#assign standardVisualizationURLRoot ="/visualizationfm">
+<#assign ajaxVisualizationURLRoot ="/visualizationAjax">
+<#assign dataVisualizationURLRoot ="/visualizationData">
+
+<#assign organizationURI ="${organizationURI?url}">
+<#assign jsonContent ="${jsonContent}">
+<#assign organizationLabel = "${organizationLabel}">
+<#assign organizationVivoProfileURL = "${urls.base}/individual?uri=${organizationURI}">
+
+
+<#assign temporalGraphSmallIcon = '${urls.images}/visualization/temporal_vis_small_icon.jpg'>
+
+
+<#assign TemporalGraphDownloadFile = '${urls.base}${dataVisualizationURLRoot}?vis=entitycomparison&uri=${organizationURI}&labelField=label'>
+
+
+<#-- Javascript files -->
+
+<#assign flot = '${urls.base}/js/visualization/entitycomparison/jquery_plugins/flot/jquery.flot.js'>
+<#assign fliptext = '${urls.base}/js/visualization/entitycomparison/jquery_plugins/fliptext/jquery.mb.flipText.js'>
+<#assign jgrowl = '${urls.base}/js/visualization/entitycomparison/jquery_plugins/jgrowl/jquery.jgrowl.js'>
+<#assign datatable = '${urls.base}/js/visualization/entitycomparison/jquery_plugins/datatable/jquery.dataTables.js'>
+<#assign autoellipsis = '${urls.base}/js/visualization/entitycomparison/jquery_plugins/jquery.AutoEllipsis.js'>
+
+<#assign entityComparisonUtils = '${urls.base}/js/visualization/entitycomparison/util.js'>
+<#assign entityComparisonConstants = '${urls.base}/js/visualization/entitycomparison/constants.js'>
+
+<script type="text/javascript" src="${flot}"></script>
+<script type="text/javascript" src="${fliptext}"></script>
+<script type="text/javascript" src="${jgrowl}"></script>
+<script type="text/javascript" src="${datatable}"></script>
+<script type="text/javascript" src="${autoellipsis}"></script>
+<script type="text/javascript" src="${entityComparisonUtils}"></script>
+<script type="text/javascript" src="${entityComparisonConstants}"></script>
+
+<#-- CSS files -->
+
+
+<#assign jgrowlStyle = "${urls.base}/js/visualization/entitycomparison/jquery_plugins/jgrowl/jquery.jgrowl.css" />
+<#assign demoTable = "${urls.base}/js/visualization/entitycomparison/jquery_plugins/datatable/demo_table.css" />
+
+<#assign entityComparisonStyle = "${urls.base}/css/visualization/entitycomparison/layout.css" />
+<#assign vizStyle = "${urls.base}/css/visualization/visualization.css" />
+
+<link href="${jgrowlStyle}" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
+<link href="${demoTable}" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
+<link href="${entityComparisonStyle}" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
+<link href="${vizStyle}" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
+
+
+<#-- variables passed from server-side code -->
+<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
+	
+var contextPath = "${urls.base}";
+var temporalGraphDownloadFile = "${TemporalGraphDownloadFile}"
+var temporalGraphSmallIcon = "${temporalGraphSmallIcon}";
+
+</script>
+
+<script type="text/javascript">
+
+	$(document).ready(function() {
+
+		var jsonString = '${jsonContent}';
+		var organizationLabel = '${organizationLabel}';   
+
+		$("#organizationLabel").text(organizationLabel).css("color", "#2485ae");
+		$("#organizationMoniker").text(organizationLabel);
+		$("#organizationMoniker").attr("href", "${organizationVivoProfileURL}");
+		
+		var jsonObject = {
+				prepare : function(arg1){
+					loadData(arg1);
+				}
+			};
+		
+		graphContainer = $("#graphContainer");
+		tableDiv = $('#paginatedTable');
+
+ 		// initial display of the grid when the page loads
+ 		init(graphContainer);
+		
+		/*
+		 * When the intra-entity parameters are clicked,
+		 * update the status accordingly.	
+		 */	        
+        $("select.comparisonValues").click(function(){
+            var selectedValue = $("select.comparisonValues option:selected").val();
+			$("#comparisonParameter").text("Total Number of " + selectedValue);
+			$('#yaxislabel').html("Number of " + selectedValue).mbFlipText(false);
+			$('#comparisonHeader').html(selectedValue).css('font-weight', 'bold');
+        });
+
+		//click event handler for clear button
+		$("button#clear").click(function(){
+			clearRenderedObjects();
+		});
+
+		//click event handler for download file
+		$("button#csv").click(function(){
+			  alert("${TemporalGraphDownloadFile}");
+		});		
+		
+		$("input[type=checkbox].easyDeselectCheckbox").live('click', function(){
+			
+			var checkbox = $(this);
+			var checkboxValue = $(this).attr("value");
+			var linkedCheckbox = labelToCheckedEntities[checkboxValue];
+			//console.log('checkbox value is '+ checkboxValue);
+			var entityToBeRemoved = labelToEntityRecord[checkboxValue];
+
+			if(!checkbox.is(':checked')){
+				//console.log("Easy deselect checkbox is unclicked!");
+				updateRowHighlighter(linkedCheckbox);
+				removeUsedColor(entityToBeRemoved);
+				removeEntityUnChecked(renderedObjects, entityToBeRemoved);                          
+             	removeGraphic(linkedCheckbox);
+             	removeCheckBoxFromGlobalSet(linkedCheckbox);
+             	$(linkedCheckbox).attr('checked', false);
+             	checkIfColorLimitIsReached();
+                displayLineGraphs();
+				updateCounter();				
+    		}
+		});
+							
+		//parse the json object and pass it to loadData
+        jsonObject.prepare(jQuery.parseJSON(jsonString));
+
+        /* 
+         *  function to populate the labelToEntityRecord object with the
+         *  values from the json file and
+         *  dynamically generate checkboxes
+         */
+        function loadData(jsonData){
+            
+           // var yearRange;
+
+            $.each(jsonData, function(index, val){
+                setOfLabels.push(val.label);
+                labelToEntityRecord[val.label] = val;
+            });
+
+			getEntityVisMode(jsonData);
+			prepareTableForDataTablePagination(jsonData);
+			setEntityLevel();
+           // calcMinandMaxYears(labelToEntityRecord, year);
+			//yearRange = (year.max - year.min);
+
+           // setLineWidthAndTickSize(yearRange, FlotOptions);     
+			//setTickSizeOfYAxis(calcMaxOfComparisonParameter(labelToEntityRecord), FlotOptions);
+            /*
+             * When the elements in the paginated div
+             * are clicked this event handler is called
+             */
+            $("input.if_clicked_on_school").live('click', function(){
+            
+                var checkbox = $(this);
+                var checkboxValue = $(this).attr("value");
+                var entity = labelToEntityRecord[checkboxValue];
+                
+				//Dynamically generate the bar, checkbox and label.
+
+                var bottomDiv = $("#bottom");
+                var hiddenLabel = createGraphic(entity, bottomDiv);
+
+                
+                var divBar = hiddenLabel.next();
+                var divLabel = hiddenLabel.prev();
+                var spanElement = divBar.next('span');
+
+                if (checkbox.is(':checked')) {
+                	
+					getNextFreeColor(entity);
+					generateBarAndLabel(entity, divBar, divLabel,checkbox, spanElement) ; 
+					renderLineGraph(renderedObjects, entity);
+					labelToCheckedEntities[checkboxValue] = checkbox;
+					                     
+		        } else if (!checkbox.is(':checked')) {
+		
+					removeUsedColor(entity);
+					removeEntityUnChecked(renderedObjects, entity);                          
+		            removeGraphic(checkbox);
+		            removeCheckBoxFromGlobalSet(checkbox);
+		                     
+		        	}
+				//console.log('Number of checked entities: ' + getSize(labelToCheckedEntities));
+				//disableUncheckedEntities();
+				setTickSizeOfAxes();
+				checkIfColorLimitIsReached();
+		    	//populateMapOfCheckedEntities();                    
+		        displayLineGraphs();
+				updateCounter(); 
+		
+		    });
+        }
+
+	});
+	
+</script>
+
+<div id="body">
+		<h2 style="width: 36%; padding-left:45px;"><a href="" id = "organizationMoniker"></a></h2>
+		<div id="leftblock">
+			<div id="leftUpper">
+				<h3>How do you want to compare?</h3>
+				
+				<div style="text-align: left;">
+				
+				<select class="comparisonValues" style="margin-bottom: 20px;">
+					<option value="Publications" selected="selected">by Publications</option>
+					<option value="Grants">by Grants</option>
+<#--
+					<option value="People" disabled="disabled">by People</option>
+					<option value="Item4" disabled="disabled">by Item4</option>
+					<option value="Item5" disabled="disabled">by Item5</option>
+-->
+				</select>
+				
+				</div>
+			</div>
+						
+			<div id="leftLower">
+				<h3>Who do you want to compare?</h3>
+				<div id="paginatedTable">
+				</div>
+			</div>
+			<div id = "stopwordsdiv">
+				* The entity types core:Person, foaf:Organization have been excluded as they are too general.
+			</div>	
+		</div>
+		<div id="rightblock">
+		
+			<h4 id="headerText" style="padding-left:60px;">Comparing <span id="comparisonHeader">Publications</span> of <span id="entityHeader">Institutions</span> in <span id="organizationLabel"></span></h4>
+			<div id="graphContainer" style="width: 450px; height: 250px;"></div>
+			<div id="yaxislabel"></div>
+			
+			<div id="bottom" style="width: 450px; height: 350px;">
+				<div id="xaxislabel">Year</div>
+		
+				<div id="bottomButtons">
+					<button id="clear" class="green-button" type ="button">Remove All</button>
+					<button id="csv" class="green-button" class="green-button" type ="button">Save as CSV</button>
+					<button id="image" class="green-button" type="button" onClick="window.print()"> Save as Image</button>				
+				</div><br/>
+		
+				<h4><span id="comparisonParameter"></span></h4>
+		
+			<p class="displayCounter">You have selected <span id="counter">0</span> of a maximum <span
+			id="total">10</span> <span id="entityleveltext"> schools</span> to compare.</p>
+		
+			</div>
+		
+		</div>		
+</div>