[Zope] Modal behaviour wanted!

[Richard Wesley]

At 12:52 PM +0200 4/5/02, Luca Manini wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'looking for a standard and flexible way (a Zope idiom) to do in Zope
>what's really easy to do in a normal GUI (no web) for a very common
>problem.

I'm fighting a similar problem here.  I have solved part of the 
problem with SESSION objects, but the form I have been given is 
complex.  The goal is to create a new record in a DB table and some 
entries in a join table between this new record and several entries 
from an existing second table.  The form looks kind of like this:

<new record fields>

<batched list of second table entries with selection checkboxes>

<Select>

<filter controls for second table listing> <Search>

<list of selected second table entries and join data> <Delete for each line>

<Enroll> <Clear>

The big problem I see is that the batch controls are just links back 
to the same page with a different start= argument.  This will lose 
all the changes to the join data that the user may have made since 
the page was displayed.  Short of changing the navigation to submit 
buttons (a somewhat ugly solution) I don't see a way around this.

TIA,
- rmgw

<http://www.electricfish.com/hawkfish/>

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