[FX.php List] (slightly off-topic) advice needed for intuitive way to sort categories and items within categories

[Dale Bengston]

Hi Alex,

You might want to take a look at Scriptaculous.

http://script.aculo.us/

I have used their drag-and-drop before with FMP, but not to establish  
sort order.

Dale

On Jan 4, 2007, at 10:08 AM, Alex Gates wrote:

> Hi everyone-
>
> I'm creating a system that will allow users to build a cookbook  
> online.
> One of the issues I am struggling with is an intuitive way for the  
> user
> to create the sort order for the recipe categories and the recipes in
> each category.
>
> For example:
>
> Appetizers (category name)
> ----------
> Onion Rings (recipe title)
> BBQ chicken (recipe title)
> Spinach Dip (recipe title)
> Etc.
>
> Main Dishes (category name)
> -----------
> Chicken Pizza (recipe title)
> Spaghetti and Meatballs (recipe title)
> Chicken Marsala (recipe title)
> Etc.
>
>
> I'm assuming an average of 8 categories and somewhere around 40  
> recipes
> per category.
>
> I'd like it to be very easy for the user to create categories, sort  
> the
> order that the categories will be listed in the book, and sort the  
> order
> that the recipes will be listed in each category.
> These "sort numbers" will need to end up in FileMaker -
> So on my categories layout, I will have one record for each category -
> and a "sort order in book" field for the category.
> On the recipes layout, I will have one record for each recipe and a
> "sort order in category" field for the recipe.
>
> The most "user friendly" way would probably be to allow the user to  
> drag
> and drop.
> This page: http://www.gregphoto.net/sortable/advanced/ shows something
> that would be incredibly nice - but I'm not sure how much time it  
> would
> (should) take to become functional with fx.php - (have a peek at the
> source).
>
> I wouldn't have any problem getting the data to display, but nothing
> comes to mind right off the top of my head on how to do a "submit" and
> loop through all these records and change the "sort number."
>
> So - I'd welcome any suggestions from anyone here as to how you'd go
> about accomplishing something like this.  I suppose I could always  
> have
> another form field on the page called "sort order" and have a dropdown
> choice or something, but that doesn't seem nearly as intuitive as  
> simply
> dragging and dropping.
>
> Any ideas/comments/criticism would be greatly appreciated.  In the  
> mean
> time, I will mess around with this drag and drop a little more...
>
> Thanks!
>
> Alex
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org] On Behalf Of Gjermund
> Gusland Thorsen
> Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 4:38 AM
> To: adenman at tmea.org; FX.php Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [FX.php List] CSS WYSIWYG Editors
>
> Did anyone here try CSS Edit( http://macrabbit.com/ )??? I think it's
> the best CSS design tool yet.
>
> I also tried Xyle Scope( http://www.culturedcode.com/ ) but I find
> Xyle Scope to be an analyzis tool and not a design tool.
> There is also a pretty nice analyzis addon for FireFox called web
> developer.
>
> ggt667
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