Nevermind, I figured out how to do this using "nested"
#this controller config setting overrides the default functionality
of showing the green box for parent records
config.columns[:rightparent].set_link('nested', :parameters =>
{:associations => "rightparent"})
I hope this helps somebody else.
On Sep 10, 12:35 pm, dschruth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My situation is this. I have a table that has two sets of parent
> table lineages like so:
>
> leftparent rightparent
> \ / \
> child child2
>
> I just found out that I can right click on the associated link to the
> child records linked from the "children" column in leftparent. I was
> pleasantly surprised to find only the subset records for left parent
> showed up in the new window. The link looks like this:
>
> http://my.domain.com/rails/leftparents/7/nested?_method=get&associati...
>
> But now I want to navigate through to the rightparent of one of the
> children. This can also be accomplished by right clicking on the show
> link and opening in a new window.
>
> http://my.domain.com/rails/rightparent/9?_method=get&nested=true&pare...
>
> which gives me the green "show" view of this one (right) parent
> record.
>
> But here is the question: how can i get it to "close" without showing
> the entire "rightparent" table? The show view might be OK if it
> actually had link to child2 that I need to navigate down to it. But I
> just want that one record to be listed in the table.
>
> I'd imagine that I'd need to override the "show" somehow to recognize
> when it should close into just that one record and when it's part of a
> whole table.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave
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