This sounds like a good candidate for CFGRID and a combination of JavaScript and DHTML.
The person telling you what to do needs to understand that the web is a "stateless"
environment - which she/he apparently does not understand yet. You can't just change
things on the fly and have them update on the screen with straight HTML or without a
return trip back to the server (via form posting).
But with some VERY creative client side scripting, I think you can probably get the
job done. Look at Microsoft's site for more tips on this type of scripting and some
DHTML and JavaScript sites as well.
---mark
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Terri Stocke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 10:22 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: preventing overbooking of classes
>
>
> 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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