Try 'parsely' http://parsleyjs.org/doc/examples/simple.html
and prompt on page close to save first. On Wednesday, June 11, 2014 7:43:41 PM UTC-7, Francisco G. T. Ribeiro wrote: > > hi all, > I'm working on an app that uses forms that can be quite long and its users > often interrupt their sessions for whatever reason and end up losing the > information already filled. For this and other reasons I wanted to provide > a different behaviour to these forms where each input field updates the > record on the database as soon as its input field is released ('focusOut' > event on jQuery). Ideally, the server would reply with 'success' or an > error message so users know when they can move on to another field (without > refreshing the whole page). By the end of the form, the user wouldn't have > to review things that were written long ago since these were all already > validated. > > Now, I know this can be tricky due to database constrains but because i > need to do this very often (multiple fields and multiple forms), I thought > it would be useful to automate it, maybe even by having on the db Field > something like '..auto_update=True' (merely a suggestion) but before > getting there, I would like to know if anyone has faced this problem and if > yes what solution did you employ? > > Thank you in advance, > Francisco > > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.