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

[Alex Gates]

Hi Joel-

Wow - I've seen the fmpro site before but I didn't realize how cool that
side bar actually is.
In my case, I need the sort order to go back into FMP - I'll have a
"sort order" field in my layout that I'll need to update when the user
chooses the sort order.

I'm putting together a system where 1 person is the "chairperson" of a
cookbook project and many others are submitting recipes for the cookbook
- It will be up to the chairperson to decide the order that the
categories appear in the cookbook and the order that each recipe appears
in each individual category. 

This could be accomplished with a simple text field for the user to
enter a sort order number... but dragging and dropping seems more
intuitive.
I'm still struggling with this, so I'm open to any other suggestions...


Alex 

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[mailto:fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org] On Behalf Of Joel Shapiro
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Subject: Re: [FX.php List] (slightly off-topic) advice needed for
intuitivewayto sort categories and items within categories

On Jan 4, 2007, at 8:55 AM, Alex Gates wrote:

> I suppose what is most confusing is how to take that serialized  
> data and
> put it to use in FileMaker -

Hi Alex

Do you need the sort order(s) to go back into FMP, or can they just  
get stored as cookies?   fmpro.org has a cool re-ordering feature  
using some AJAX/scriptaculous, and they store the order in a cookie.

(See the right side-bar at http://www.fmpro.org : objects are both  
collapsible/expandable and re-orderable.  You can even see the cookie  
"FMProBoxesOrder" change as you move the objects around in the list)

HTH,
-Joel
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