Is there a way to get knockout-sortable to "clone" an element instead of "moving"

[Bob D.]

I love this knockout plugin!

I'm trying to populate a list of things by dragging elements from a list that contains types of things.

For example, take the seating chart JSFiddle bellow:

http://jsfiddle.net/rniemeyer/UdXr4/

Imagine that instead of student names, you have student types (freshman, sophmore, junior, senior). The available student list  would have these types and one would be able to drag a cloned element to one of the tables.

I've tried adding "options" with "helper:clone", which JqueryUI indicates is the way to go, but no luck.

Any ideas?

[rpn]

Hi Bob-

Here are a few samples that might help:

• Here is one using a "drag" binding and a new "receive" handler for sortable:  http://jsfiddle.net/rniemeyer/VEWFE/.  Currently, the dropped items do not participate in the beforeMove/afterMove callbacks.
• Here is an example of using sortables that contain a single item and prevent dropping:  http://jsfiddle.net/rniemeyer/Z3Jmw/
• Here is a basic drag/drop sample (no sorting):  http://jsfiddle.net/rniemeyer/78UCX/

Hope this helps.  I think that the sortable binding could do a better job of enabling these scenarios.  I think that some of the code from the first sample could be integrated into the library.

[Bob D.]

Excellent! Thanks. Third example did the trick.