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

[Jonathan Schwartz]

Hmmm...  I think that you might be right.

How would AJAX deal with this situation?

Just to be clear, I don't feel that this is an unusual request.  We 
all use this functionality every day on the web:
	- Check off emails to be deleted from web mail listing.
	- Checking multiple products in HP to compare printers.
	- Selecting multiple photos on our favorite online photo 
printing site to order, rotate, etc.
	- At the AppleStore, configuring a new computer. ( This one 
is definitely JAVA).

Surely many of you are coding this stuff already, aren't you?

Jonathan


>I think you are approaching the level of using ajax...
>
>ggt667
>
>On 4/23/07, Dale Bengston <dbengston at preservationstudio.com> wrote:
>>If you retrieve the entire 100 record set again, then you can tick
>>through the retrieved data and compare each record's id with the
>>checked items and only display the ones that match the checks.
>>
>>Dale
>>
>>
>>
>>On Apr 22, 2007, at 10:47 PM, Jonathan Schwartz wrote:
>>
>>>  In my example below, I was suggesting...what if worst case, all 100
>>>  records were checked on a page.  Then that would produce 100 FMP
>>>  requests in order to update all 100.  That just doesn't seem right.
>>>
>>>  What do you mean "filter the records"?
>>>
>>>  Jonathan
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  At 10:22 PM -0500 4/22/07, Dale Bengston wrote:
>>>>  Why not get the same found set as displayed initially and filter
>>>>  the records to just the ones checked? Even with 100 records, I
>>>>  would expect this to be much faster than five separate find
>>>>  requests to FMSA for one record apiece. And this is a much better
>>>>  scenario than editing those records to somehow flag them.
>>>>
>>>>  Dale
>>>>
>>>>  On Apr 22, 2007, at 9:47 PM, Jonathan Schwartz wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>  At 8:48 PM -0500 4/22/07, Alex Gates wrote:
>>>>>>  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
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>  Alex,
>>>>>
>>>>>  I guess that that is what is needed...loop thru the checked
>>>>>  records and issue an FMEdit() for each record checked. Seems like
>>>>>  alot of bandwidth.  What if there are 100 records on a page?
>>>>>
>>>>>  Jonathan
>>>>>
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