It would be nice to a widget that does this.
On Oct 4, 10:14 pm, Álvaro Justen [Turicas] <alvarojus...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 02:52, Iceberg <iceb...@21cn.com> wrote:
>
> > On Oct3, 8:41am, Renato-ES-Brazil <caliari.ren...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hi guys!
>
> >> When the form displays the select with several options from the other
> >> table, using the "is_in_db" configuration, couldn't also to put a
> >> button, for example "ADD NOW", next to it to allows add a new option?
>
> >> Currently is there this possibility for the CRUD (create and update
> >> forms)?
>
> > I've been in same situation as you mentioned. Here is my journey.
>
> > Adding a "Add Now" button is easy. You can either customize the form,
> > or customize the widget, or just use some jquery effect in a way like
> > this:
>
> > def youraction():
> > form=crud.create(...)
> > ...
> > return dict(form=DIV(
> > form,
> > SCRIPT('''$(document).ready(function() {
> > $("#your_widgit_id").after(
> > "<a target='_blank' href='/yourapp/default/addnow'>Add Now</
> > a>");
> > });'''),
> > ))
>
> > However, I found that after successfully adding a new entry into db,
> > there is no obvious way to refresh the is_in_db field itself,
> > providing that I don't want to HARDCODE one more dedicated ajax action
> > in my already-too-complex controller.
>
> > So, my user still have to refresh the whole original page to see the
> > change after "add now", with a price of losing all his previous input.
> > Lucky enough that I could arrange the is_in_db field at the first line
> > of my form, so the waste of input is minimum. In this case, the
> > benefit of "Add Now" button is not as big as we thought.
>
> > If anybody knows a better solution, please give me some tips. Thanks!
>
> You could open a popup with a SQLFORM to create a new register in
> other table, with a JavaScript/AJAX to update dropdown's options (and
> select option that was created), like Djando admin do.
> You could also use a "overlay" to show the form instead of the popup.
> See:http://alvarojunior.com/jquery/joverlay/0.7.1/
>
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