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How to make an "attend events" form?

Discussion in 'Community' started by jalonsom, May 18, 2009.

  1. jalonsom

    jalonsom New Member

    Level: Community
    Been trying to sort this out, but I currently have no clue on how to do this.

    I want to make an "Attend Events" application.

    - Certain users should be able to create events. This looks like an easy form. No problem.
    - I want a way to display a table containing the events that the logged in user has not confirmed if he is going to attend or not, with a link to a form that allows him to respond yes/no.
    - Ideally that table would contain the radio button to answer yes/no (I don't know if this is possible, it sounds like mixing tables and forms...) with a single submit button for all events.
    - I also want a table with already responded events, so that the user can see and edit his own responses. (ideally the edit would be done in the table, but again I don't know if it's possible).

    I have tried several approaches, trying a different table to store the user's responses, but none worked. I'm really stuck.
    ?Can anyone give me a hint?

    Thanks a lot!
     
    jalonsom, May 18, 2009
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  2. cheesegrits

    cheesegrits Support Gopher Staff Member

    Level: Community
    I answered an almost identical question about building an events / attendees app earlier today, which may help. OK, found it ... it was in the 1.0 forums, but the same principle applies for 2.0:

    http://fabrikar.com/forums/showthread.php?p=58791#post58791

    You need two tables - the events table (which stores the details about the event), and a user_events table, which has the per-user details about events they are attending.

    You can then pre-filter the user_events table so only the events you want show up, by using the 'subquery' type filter. Won't be exactly the same as the on on the other thread, but a similar principle.

    Is that how you have things set up now?

    -- hugh
     
    cheesegrits, May 18, 2009
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  3. jalonsom

    jalonsom New Member

    Level: Community
    I had those tables set up, but didn't think of prefiltering, which now seems quite obvious... I was trying to make some kind of table join....

    Thanks!!!

    Now I don't see how can I display a link in each table row so that the user can create a response for the correspondign event in the response table.

    Can I pass the event id to the response form through a parameter in the link? How?
    I could then just call the response form with that parameter.

    EDIT: I found this can be done as described here: http://fabrikar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7972

    Is there another better way?

    Thanks again!!
     
    jalonsom, May 19, 2009
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  4. rob

    rob Administrator Staff Member

    Level: Community
    nope thats the best way to do it

    Cheers
    Rob
     
    rob, May 19, 2009
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