[FX.php List] Accepting user input on multiple records simultaneously

[Alex Gates]

Hi Jonathan-

Maybe I don't understand exactly what you are trying to do, but why not 
just do a separate find for each of the desired "checked" records?

Alex

Jonathan Schwartz wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> This is a common one...but one that I have yet to attempt:
> 
> I'd like to be able to allow users to select a checkbox from multiple 
> lines (records) (displayed on the screen using a foreach after a 
> search), and then subsequently process the selected records.  A good 
> example: a web  app where the user would select desired records for 
> comparison.
> 
> Up to this point, I've worked with just single record updates.
> 
> So.....How?
> 
> 
> Soo...as I write this, I am realizing that our friend, the array, is 
> probably needed here.
>     - Display the original search result with foreach.
>     - Allow user to check boxes in one big form.
>     - Process the form, pushing "checked" record IDs into an array.
>     - Allow user to navigate to other pages in the listing, collecting 
> "checked boxes" as in in above.
>     - Upon clicking a master "Do It" button, run through the array and 
> perform an FMP search for just those records....but can't do that 
> because FX.php can't search for multiple record IDs in a search.
> 
> 
> Hmmmm....
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> 
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