On Dec 8, 2008, at 1:35 PM, David Holt wrote:

Hi all,

Is there a way for me to add an object to a to many relationship (list of objects) without leaving the page or representing the newObject both in the list and in the edit interface?

For example:

Meeting edit page

Attendees:
        John
        Mary
        Edward
        
        add new attendee(button)

When you hit the "add new attendee" button you get the new person object displayed in both the list and associated with the edit interface.

        John
        Mary
        Edward
        (new person)

        name: (new person)
        (save) (cancel)

The attendee has a mandatory meeting relationship, so it is added to the meeting upon creation. The new object is displayed as the final object in the to many relationship even before saveChanges is called on the editingContext. Is it possible to show only the objects in the relationship that have already been saved to the database and the newly created (but not yet saved) object separately?

Normally I would add the attendee on a separate page and on save come back to the original meeting page but I would like to eliminate some jumping around if possible.


1. Create and insert the EO to be added, but don't add it to the relationship. Only add once the user clicks save and you validate it.

2. Use a child (nested) ec. The new EO won't appear in the parent until the user saves. You will need to save again on the parent to make it persistent.

3. Same as 2 but use a peer EC,  only one save is needed.


Chuck


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