That sounds like the type of solution I'm looking for. I've found some drag-n-drop re-order js, but I think the arrow version of reordering would be more user friendly.
Thanks for the explanation. Rick > -----Original Message----- > From: Claude Schneegans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 11:29 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: Best way to order appearance of database content... > > >>I'm guessing the Javascript automatically assigns new values > to the hidden field for seq for each paragraph upon reordering? > > Not exactly. > I use a table to display elements, each one in its own row TR element. > I use some move up and move down function to switch two TR element in a > table. > The row has icons like up and down arrows. For example: > <TR ID="#paraId#"> > <TD onclick="move(this, -1)"><IMG SRC="up.gif" WIDTH="16" HEIGHT="13" > BORDER="0" ALT="Move up"></TD> > <TD onclick="move(this, 1)"><IMG SRC="down.gif" WIDTH="16" HEIGHT="13" > BORDER="0" ALT="Move down"></TD> > <TD>(description of the element)</TD> > </TR> > > The the onClick function will find the TR parent element, the one > before, or after and switch the two rows in the table. > Then only on submit, the function setSeq is called. > What it does, is get the table containing the elements, find all TRs in > the order the use has chosen, > each TR has an id which is actually the id of the paragraph. From these, > the function set the valu of the listPara hidden field. > Pretty simple: > function setSeq() > { > var tb = document.getElementById("tablePara"); > if (tb) > { > var tr = tb.rows; > var nbTr = tr.length; > var val = tr[0].id; > for (var i = 1; i<nbTr ; i++) val += "," + tr[i].id > document.formul.listPara.value = val; > } > } > > -- > _______________________________________ > REUSE CODE! Use custom tags; > See http://www.contentbox.com/claude/customtags/tagstore.cfm > (Please send any spam to this address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Thanks. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:301179 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
