Task28Start - Inline editing within request list

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Status : closed
Category : gui
Date opened : 2007-02-11
Description : Inline editing within request list
Referenced in stories/tasks : Story10Start
Testsuite : test/functional/main_controller_test.rb, test/integration/user_story6_test.rb
Commited revision : 107 (enter when done)

Remarks :

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Changelog

2007-02-12 - problem with in_place_editor_field encountered

When you want to use in_place_editor_field inside a partial (which we obviously want), then you have to fix a variable scope problem by hand:

_request.rhtml:

<% @request = request %>
...
<%= in_place_editor_field :request, :remarks -%>

The in_place_editor_field looks up the field remarks of table :request in the @request object.

2007-02-12 - defining the css element containing the edit field

item	id (example remarks field)	class
label	request-item_XX-remarks-label	request-fieldlabel
edit	request-item_XX-remarks-fieldedit	request-fieldedit

around these two divs is a div called request_XX-remarks.

The editor class is .inplaceeditor-form, can be refined as .inplaceeditor-form input[type="text"]

The ok/save-button and the cancel button can be defined using css. They are called: .editor_ok_button and .editor_cancel.

2007-02-12 - done

last remark: unfortunately i lost the highlighting of the request details. Think it is due to the editor, but maybe it is not. But this code will change anyways with the remake of the request list once the detailarea is gone.