Posted by btopro on February 27, 2009 at 2:36pm
Trying to get a bit more discussion to see if this is something people are interested in. At DCBoston the creator of the table-drag.js drupal extension to make all tables drag-and-droppy said it would be cool if there was a way to AJAX update it. Well, I have it working for the book's table and would love to extend my solution into a good one that would provide this functionality to all tabledrag's. Having some issues trying to think of how to make what i've done generic enough w/o having an overarching API for modifying drupal objects via js calls.
Here's the demo of it in action -- https://elearning.psu.edu/demos/outline_designer/
Here's the issue on d.o. -- http://drupal.org/node/376107
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Interesting.....
I ran into this problem with the Popups API and integrating the Forum module support. If you go to the page without any forums, and then add a couple, the table drag still doesn't show up until you refresh the page.
This would definately be a
This would definately be a cool feature. However I much doubt this would make it in core. Here's why:
1) Saving the forms in the background with AJAX could be unexpected. No other forms in D are saved using AJAX.
2) I think many actually prefer having to submit their changes. Just to make sure users think twice before changing a form.
(personally I'm not opposed to your propposal)
Nothing in drupal ajax'ed
Nothing in drupal ajax'ed yet....
But if a major focus going forward is usability I think this is one area where we can improve usability dramatically. It's a pain in the butt to have to keep scrolling down the page and hitting save on some of these long forms. I also think if it was an optional type of thing like checking a box that said "save changed automatically" or "save as changes are made", something like that then we could bypass the potential fear of screwing something up. I also think there's an ajax history project or something like it so maybe a mini undo would have to be in-order.
Dono, just kickin idea's around, I see what you're saying though w/ each point
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