How to generate new display of a table

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Im trying to create a custom action link that when clicked will not
render a nested scaffold. It is much like hitting a refresh button.
When Clicking on the action link the table will be refreshed with a
different set of criteria for what to show.

What Im trying to achieve is showing only records in my table that are
not resolved( a table column) and then when clicking the action link
it will redisplay my same table but with the criteria of only showing
the resolved records.

IS this doable? I sure hope so. It seems so easy yet so hard to get
working.

I have tried many things and have yet to get this to work any and all
help is much appreciated!

[mdf]

easy way to get a constrained view:

1) create a new controller which inherits from your existing
controller
2) add to new controller conditions_for_collection()
3) when this route works, add a link to your layout (not controller)
<a href="/unresolved_my_models">Unresolved</a>

class UnresolvedMyModelsController < MyModelsController
def conditions_for_collection
"`resolved` = 0"
end
end

If you really need a link *within* your active_scaffold see:
http://www.activescaffold.com/docs/api-action-link, and
look at AS "search" do_search and friends