[SOLVED] Ajax forms and updating of pages

[chozma]

Hi all,

Would hugely appreciate some advice on the best way to go about this one...

I have a form that allows you to create a record about an animal. You can link an animal to a mob (another word for a herd). The mobs info is stored in a separate table. If a user is adding an animal and has not yet created a mob the form creates a message with some help text.

Now here's the bit I could use some help with...

I would like to put a link in that help text to open a window (just a little pop up sort of thing, like you get when you use ajax) with the form that allows you to create the mob. Then once the user has saved the mob I would like the page they were working on to update and show the mob in a dropdown list. Of course I don't want them to create a new mob and lose any info they have already entered.

How can I go about doing this? Any snippets of code etc would be most appreciated.

Thanks,

Hannah

 

[chozma]

Friendly bump

 

[chozma]

Friendly bump - would love some pointers with this Thanks

 

[cheesegrits]

I can't think of a way to do it from the help text, but assuming your 'mob' element is a join, that's built in to the join element. "Add option on front end".

-- hugh

 

[chozma]

Wonderful, thanks! The 'add option on front end' was exactly what I needed. It never fails to amaze me how you guys have really got everything covered - its just finding out the right option to tinker with!

 

[cheesegrits]

Yeah, we are what you might call "feature rich", or (in old fashioned UI terminology) that we suffer from Feeping Creaturism.

Even I forget all the features, bells, whistles, dials and knobs you can twiddle with.

-- hugh