In place editing for a "group of fields"

I remember seeing such a technique in a blog/article/book but am
unable to find it.

It essentially used a hidden div which contained the form which was
visible only during editing.

any pointers ?

[email protected] wrote:

I remember seeing such a technique in a blog/article/book but am
unable to find it.

It essentially used a hidden div which contained the form which was
visible only during editing.

any pointers ?

Are you looking for something like this?:

I found script.aculo.us has this built in (which is in Ruby on Rails):
http://wiki.script.aculo.us/scriptaculous/show/Ajax.InPlaceEditor

I also found this for prototype (also built in to Ruby on Rails):
http://joseph.randomnetworks.com/archives/2006/04/18/ajax-edit-in-place-with-prototype/

Hopefully, one of these will help.
Mike

Thanks Mike … all of those resources talk about in-place editing for
just one field at a time.

What I am looking for is a dynamic form that follows the same
principle but for a group of fields at a time. So instead of having to
save each individual field, the user can edit multiple fields and hit
save just once.

I did see this mentined in some article and its frustrating not to
find any pointers.

thanks for trying to help =)

[email protected] wrote:

Thanks Mike … all of those resources talk about in-place editing for
just one field at a time.

What I am looking for is a dynamic form that follows the same
principle but for a group of fields at a time. So instead of having to
save each individual field, the user can edit multiple fields and hit
save just once.

Unfortunately, I don’t see anything that has that. I did find someone
who asked about the same functionality in November 2006, but the reply
was that the edit in place script would have to be re-worked. Sorry I
couldn’t help.

Mike

what about form_remote_for or form_remote_tag?
http://api.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActionView/Helpers/PrototypeHelper.html#M000531
http://api.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActionView/Helpers/PrototypeHelper.html#M000529

What I do in this case is create the form_remote_for inside a hidden
div (style=“display:none”) then toggle that hidden div with something
like:

link_to_function(‘edit’, visual_effect(:toggle_appear,
‘the_hidden_form_div’))

If you want to be able to click on multiple fields and edit them all,
you could do something like this:

Field 1: <%= @model.name %>
Field 2: <%= @model.description %>
<% form_remote_for :model..... do |f| %> <%= f.text_field, :name %>
<%= f.text_area, :description %>
<%= submit_tag 'Save' %> <%= link_to_function 'Cancel', "$('edit').hide();$ ('fields').show()" $> <% end %>

I usually put something like the above into a partial, then use RJS to
reload that partial after the remote save.

Hope this helps.

-=nathan

Thanks Nathan!

That was in line with what I was looking for :=)

On 10 February 2014 13:37, Pramod Z. [email protected] wrote:

Hi,

Can you explaine me all process that means which files is include and
how to apply it because of i want it in cake php and prototype

Firstly are you familiar with Rails? If not then first work right
through a good tutorial such as railstutorial.org (which is free to
use online). That should show you the basics of rails.

Colin

Hi,

Can you explaine me all process that means which files is include and
how to apply it because of i want it in cake php and prototype