[FX.php List] Edit List of Results

[Dale Bengston]

Hi Trish,

I think this is where you have to take your FileMaker hat off and put  
on your web developer hat.

I'm using Scriptaculous drag/drop to accomplish this same type of  
thing. The user just drags items around on the screen to re-order  
them. A sort order field is modified to via AJAX to account for the  
new sequence.

I realize that AJAX and JavaScript-based drag/drop are a pretty big  
departure from straight FileMaker/web development, but it would  
greatly improve the user experience.

Hope this helps,
Dale


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Dale Bengston
Streamline Studio, LLC
www.streamline-studio.com

On Jun 1, 2009, at 8:27 AM, VanBuskirk, Patricia wrote:

> Forgive me if this has been asked previously.  I did a search, but  
> did not find anything about this.
>
> I have a Departmental (phone) Directory using FX and FM9 on WinXP.   
> The user logs in and gets a list of their sections ... under that on  
> the same page shows all the listings, now sorted alpha by Section  
> Name, then Print Line.  If there is a print order specified in the  
> database, it sorts by that first.
>
> What I'd like to do is allow the user to re-order their listings  
> manually on one page.  In other words, I don't want them to have to  
> click on edit for each line, change the print order field, go back  
> and do the next line, etc.  This is how is was previously set up in  
> CDML, and was a huge pain for the user.  If they want to change line  
> #25 to be #1, they have to click edit/save on 25 records to  
> renumber.  There MUST be a better way, but I cannot wrap my brain  
> around it.
>
> If this is clear as mud, please let me know ... after all, it is  
> relatively early on a Monday morning!  If needed, I can email code.
>
> Thanks,
> Trish
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