Posted by jasonwhat on November 22, 2006 at 7:32am
Today I saw a presentation on a site that had small icons next to each editable field on a website. It truly was "dummy proof" and got me to thinking about how this could be done in Drupal. Could the jquery editable plugin be integrated to update drupal nodes?
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integrate with Double Click project?
Seems like this would nest very well with that project and maybe even a module that would provide the admin with default actions for each type of click: e.g. single click enters edit in place and double click redirects to edit page for that node?
This would be very very slick to see integrated. I can see that now that drupal has jquery, it will quickly become one of the most ajax friendly CMSs out there.
http://drupal.org/project/dblclick
-Mike
hi jasonwhat
hi jasonwhat
Implementing a jQuery plugin itself is rarely going to be hard. The issue in my mind is: how do you ensure compliance with the node validation.
What is need (and perhaps it already exists) is a way to validate a single element of a form outside the realms of the normal FAPI validation/submit process...
i added this to my sandbox
i added this to my sandbox to show a solution.
http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/contributions/sandbox/stevemckenzie...
it still needs some love. I just need a few days to really sit down and iron out the bugs. I have a great solution to integrating tinymce with the textareas.
Also, it was developed with an early svn version of jquery (just before 1.0 jquery came out) and since the new versions, something broke something lol. John the creator of jQuery built the anyedit.js file. We have both been so busy, we haven't gotten to finish this yet.
If anyone can point out suggestions, bugs, etc.. that would be great. timcn (he changed his name but thats what i remember him by) did a jquery inline editing too but his was in a different direction. We were going to merge but never did yet.
Version compatibility
That is great Steve. I'm happy to test it out. Cool Ideal to include tinymce with it. Is this 4.7(with jquery added) or 5.0 compatible?
Follow up?
Has anymore work taken place with this?
edit in place
no updates :(
Use for comments also?
If this can get working for nodes, it seems like it could also work on comments. Most sites now seem to have that feature of adding comments via ajax and I think it also makes the load lighter on the site on heavy sites.
Activeedit module now available
I've added a new module to the Javascript Tools package, http://drupal.org/project/jstools, that implements in place editing. It's functional, if a bit bare bones at present. The elements that are editable are defined through a hook, so it will be easy enough for others to make editable elements. If anyone wants to help out with this, I'd very much welcome the help.
For details, see the module readme: http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/contributions/modules/jstools/activ...
I'd love to help out!
I've been wanting to do something like this for a while, just haven't had the time. Once I do get enough time I'll definitely prioritize this, unfortunately I can't promise when that'll be. I'm not an educated programmer, nor a JavaScript expert, but I write clean and am thorough in what I do :)
I would like to see
I would like to see this.
Let's try to get Active edit to implement this, and hope the D7UX team gets it into Drupal 7.
Everyone interested should voice their desire for this functionality in this issue:
http://drupal.org/node/243945