Hi James!
Thanks for your response.
Well, yes...I could have the coordinator edit one record at a time as you
described. I will probably use your suggestion as my last resort, but what
we really wanted was a very convenient interface so that the coordinator
could update the entire class roster at a glance. The other factor is that
if the coordinator sees the updated roster and wants to go back and re-edit
her changes, I don't want that form to refresh--I want her to be able to
quickly see which fields she had changed previously. Make sense?
My boss (all hail the guru programmer ;) suggested that I pass a hidden form
field from the form that contains the original value of the registration
status for each record. That way, the original value is passed to the action
page, AS WELL AS the updated value from the dropdown box. Then I can compare
the two fields for each record on my action page before any updates occur.
I'm going to give this a try. Stay tuned all, as dealing with these loops
sometimes throws me for a loop :)))
Thanks, James!
Terri
----Original Message Follows----
From: "James Mathieson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: CF-Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: preventing overbooking of classes
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 10:55:51 -0400
Heya, Terri,
OK, admitted CF_Novice coming out of normal lurk mode, but heck, here's
what comes to mind. You may have already thought of this but want to do
it differently, but...
What about setting the coordinator's registration process to be able to
only approve 1 student at a time? That way, while in the registration
admin page, you can display the list of those waiting for approval, plus
the number of available slots. The coordinator approves a person, and you
give the standard " Mr.X Approved for class Y / approve another person /
back to admin main page" type page in return. And when the coordinator
says "yeah, I'll approve that other guy" you'll be pulling up your
refreshed counts, and if there are no available slots in the class, you
can show the appropriate "class full" message, and the person will not be
*able* to register more students than class slots.
Of course, the downside is if you're working with large classes, or a lot
of students. ;>
Is this something resembling what you want to do?
Hope this helps,
James~
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