Thanks Jens, I will take a look. I was hoping that there was already a "tapestry-zed" solution since to me it seems a common need...
Do you know if tapestry 5.4 has some native support for jquery tables? Thanks, larzeni > Sent: Monday, August 03, 2015 at 7:03 PM > From: "mailingl...@j-b-s.de" <mailingl...@j-b-s.de> > To: "Tapestry users" <users@tapestry.apache.org> > Subject: Re: Filling some filed of a form selecting a row from a grid > > Maybe you have a look at jquery tables + ajax? > > https://www.datatables.net/examples/data_sources/server_side.html > > Jens > > > Von meinem iPhone gesendet > > > Am 03.08.2015 um 17:55 schrieb Luca Arzeni <l.arz...@iname.com>: > > > > Thanks Kalle, > > I appreciate your hint and I already used a solution like this for a > > shorter list of items. > > > > The point here is that the list needs to be shown in a grid since it has > > more than 100.000 items, and I need to allow the user to filter it > > according to few criteria (that I've already implemented in the page that > > contains the grid). > > > > If you have used a ERP application you will recognize here a recurrent > > pattern: user needs to fill some fields, hit a lookup button, the button > > open a new page containing a list of items. The user select one of these > > item and fills the fields of the originating form. > > > > By the way: the user needs to see a list of customers since many users have > > similar values (same name, same city...) so he needs to examinate more than > > one field to choose the right one (which is the reason why a show a list of > > customers in a grid). > > > > Thanks again for your help, but I need a different solution here! > > larzeni > > > > > > > > > > > >> Sent: Monday, August 03, 2015 at 6:37 PM > >> From: "Kalle Korhonen" <kalle.o.korho...@gmail.com> > >> To: "Tapestry users" <users@tapestry.apache.org> > >> Subject: Re: Filling some filed of a form selecting a row from a grid > >> > >>> On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 7:58 AM, Luca Arzeni <l.arz...@iname.com> wrote: > >>> > >>> Hi, > >>> I'm using tapestry 5.3.7 unde jboss6 (java6). > >>> I'm developing an invoice form. > >>> I already have a customer list, built with a grid. > >>> While filling the invoice form, I need to show the customer grid, select > >>> one of the customers, and retrieve his data (first and last name, > >>> addreess, > >>> city, zip code phone numbers and so on...), to fill some fields of the > >>> invoice form. > >>> I would not like to use a select on the invoice data, since I have a large > >>> list of customers. > >>> What is the best practise to face this issue? > >>> > >>> > >> The typical solution is to use some type of autocomplete field, where the > >> user can start typing on a field and the system makes a lookup on the > >> background and provides a list of matches based on the input. There's an > >> autocomplete mixins available for a regular input field, see > >> http://tapestry.apache.org/component-mixins.html. It may or may not work > >> out-of-the-box but at least it'll give you ideas on how to build yours. > >> > >> Kalle > >> > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tapestry.apache.org > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tapestry.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tapestry.apache.org
