Preferred method of using Xataface with Ajax to display and edit related record

[James Berghout]

I have an application I'm developing in which I want to display notes related to a given record in a section below the record. (this part is straight forward. I'm already doing this.)

In addition I want these related notes to be able to be added and edited without leaving the parent record screen via ajax. I'm sure I can implement methods found around the web to do this, but I want to use any existing Xataface resources that already exist for this purpose. This seems like a fairly straight forward and not uncommon exercise.

I'm not super familiar with Ajax, but I understand the basics. And I know where and how to find help. Any direction to using Xataface's built in resources including JQuery is appreciated. 

-james

[Steve Hannah]

I have done some work in this area, but it is not documented well (or even at all really).

I developed a module that includes two key components for performing AJAX stuff:

UITable : A table to list records, but using Ajax to feed the content of the table.

UIForm : A dynamic form to edit a record using AJAX.  Actually it uses a combination of iframes and AJAX for this.

The github repo:

https://github.com/shannah/xataface-module-uitk

A demo action showing how to use it:

https://github.com/shannah/xataface-module-uitk/blob/master/actions/uitk_demo.php

And associated template:

https://github.com/shannah/xataface-module-uitk/blob/master/templates/xataface/modules/uitk/actions/demo.html

And associated Javascript using both UITable and UIForm

https://github.com/shannah/xataface-module-uitk/blob/master/js/xataface/modules/uitk/actions/demo.js

There is also a lower level API for just loading and saving records.  This is part of the Xataface core:

https://rawgit.com/shannah/xataface/master/doc_output/jsdoc/symbols/xataface.IO.html

Steve

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[James Berghout]

Awesome! I'll dig into this info!