Hi Thiago, I really appreciate your help! May be that my problems came from the fact that I've always seen this job solved with a button that shows a picklist.
I'm used to see something like the behaviour of OpenXava, take a look at this: http://www.openxava.org/InvoiceDemo/m/Invoice When you press the new button, the system allows you to create a new invoice. At this point you need to select a customer: you can insert a customer number, but, if you don't know it, you can press the search button at the right of the customer number and the system will open a popup showing you a list of customers. You can choose one of them, and, after the selection, the popup will close, and the data of the selected customer will fill in you form. I was trying to mimic this behavior. What would be your way to do this? May be there is a simpler way, that I didn't spot, for solving this problem in tapestry? Also, I understand that the fields in the invoice form could be wrapped in a zone and updated after the selection, but I don't understand how can I show a popup to the user, allow him to choose the customer, and get the data back to my form. I know that I can do this using a select/dropdown/autocomplete to select the customer directly from the invoice form, but since there are many of them, I cannot show all of them in a drop down, so I need the user to filter/find the one that he needs. Thanks, larzeni > Sent: Monday, August 03, 2015 at 10:08 PM > From: "Thiago H de Paula Figueiredo" <thiag...@gmail.com> > To: "Tapestry users" <users@tapestry.apache.org> > Subject: Re: Filling some filed of a form selecting a row from a grid > > On Mon, 03 Aug 2015 15:32:06 -0300, Luca Arzeni <l.arz...@iname.com> wrote: > > > I have built a JPA datasource provider that is similar to the hibernate > > one, and it manages filtering, sorting and paging so the size of a grid > > is not an issue; I was declaring that the dataset is verylarge only to > > explain the reason why I cannot use an autocomplete/drop down field. > > You don't need to show all the options . . . > > > Regarding the "user interface question", well, ehrrr... ehm... I was > > using tapestry exactly to build the user interface, > > I wasn't talking about the coding part, but how to present a good user > interface so the user can do their tasks on it easily and intuitively. > > > so I was appreciating the grid that allows me to show many columns to > > the user. I was simply hoping to find a "standard" way to solve this > > issue, if I'm the first one to have this need may be I choose the wrong > > tool for this task :-) > > Grid is awesome for showing tabular data, if that's your question. You've > mentioned 100 thousands rows, so I thought that was your concern, but not > it seems to me it isn't. > > To be honest, I still think your question is vague and not very well > phrased, so it's hard to give a good answer. You may try to use zones so > you don't need to write any JavaScript to make your selection be applied > to the first form. > > -- > Thiago H. de Paula Figueiredo > Tapestry, Java and Hibernate consultant and developer > http://machina.com.br > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tapestry.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tapestry.apache.org
