On Jun 28, 2011, at 3:15 PM, ylluminate wrote: > Matt: THANK YOU! Tremendous. I am curious, I am converting an app > that used to have the following scenario: > > There were fields such as "Elementary School" and "Heating System" > where they were simply table attributes and not actual children to a > parent table. The way it worked was that there was a special control > via javascript that was a textfield with a drop down. This control > would query the db so as to pull all, for example, "Cooling System" > entries from all "Cooling System" attributes in the table to populate > the drop down and allow an autofill as the user typed of the correct > entry if one already existed. The reason this is useful is that these > items could change pretty regularly. A modern control that would > currently fit this bill is: http://coffeescripter.com/code/editable-select/ > Is this currently possible with Hobo? >
Bryan recently added something of the editable-dropdown flavor: http://groups.google.com/group/hobousers/browse_thread/thread/d3dafe2ab97cac03?hl=en Not sure if this exactly fits your description, though. > Additionally Matt, it seems that the "Hobo way" of adding images to > something is to add a record and then immediately offer back the show > page and then add images or other things with that. Is there a way to > allow images and other such dynamic things (such as in this case I'm > also adding "Rooms" in a dynamic way) on the creation page? I realize > it's a chicken and egg scenario where you don't have the parent record > yet to which to attach them, so I don't know if this has been > considered so as to make tmp records and then reassign them upon > parent record creation...? You can create multiple associated records in one go (even on a 'new' record) with input-many and friends. The biggest gotcha with things like that and image upload is that it's always messy to stash images someplace when a record fails validation (and uploading them more than once is terrible UX). --Matt Jones -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hobo Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hobousers?hl=en.
