Would be very nice to see some screenshots or a live demo! Thank you for sharing it, I am testing!
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 5:38 PM, monotasker <scotti...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've written a new plugin that provides a select widget that can be > refreshed via ajax, along with a button that opens a dialog to add new > items to the linked table. When the dialog is closed, the select widget is > automatically refreshed via ajax and the added item(s) are available as > selectable options. You can download or clone the file from the github > repository: https://github.com/monotasker/plugin_ajaxselect > > In one sense this is a duplication of the "select_or_add" module that has > been available on web2py slices. Under the hood, though, they are quite > different. My ajaxselect plugin does not manipulate the select widget on > the user side (inserting options via jquery). Instead, I use web2py's built > in ajax functionality to refresh the widget *from the db*. I think this > will make for a more robust and versatile plugin. > > Please test it out and let me know about (a) bugs and (b) additional > features you would like to see (more customizability, etc.). My immediate > plan is to expand the plugin to use the same approach for filtering the > contents of one select widget based on the value of another. > > The plugin is licensed under GPL3, so feel free to adapt and reuse it as > you like. > > Cheers, > > Ian > -- Bruno Rocha [http://rochacbruno.com.br]
