application is going to manage several thousand records, and the text in
these fields, on average from 100 to 200 characters, will all be entered by
hand. I'm looking for a way to ease the initial data entry by allowing a
user to copy into the form from existing records.
So, is this possible (CF5):
I'd like the user to be able to copy (on a per-field basis, rather than by
record) from existing data that's been entered into the table. I'm thinking
of a drop-down select input, plus a button, next to each textarea where a
user could select a related record (there would be anywhere from a dozen to
perhaps 100 possible selections available in the select box). Clicking the
button will plop the text from the other record into the field.
If the number of selections were smaller, or the text to be copied were
shorter, I'd just use _javascript_, with all possible text strings "preloaded"
into JS arrays when the form is generated. In this app I'll have to submit a
request to the server, get a returned value and somehow pass this into the
form field - without submitting the form itself.
I'm guessing that if this is doable it's going to involve some fiddling with
hidden frames...
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