One thing I did for a big set of HABTM checkboxes was add an override
style to at least clean up the visual:
.active-scaffold .checkbox-list li {float: left; width: 200px;}
200px is sufficiently wide for my content and also there are only
about 40-50 choices, so YMMV...
On Mar 13, 7:20 am, Kenny Ortmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> ui_type to :select
> sets your column to have a ui of select.
>
> ui_type to :check sets it to check box, but I don't know if this works for
> has_many or HABTM
>
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 6:42 AM, rbarton <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Setting the ui_type to :select for the associated column will show a
> > list of checkboxes on new/edit, which sounds like what you're after.
> > No need for custom code to do that!
>
> > But if you really do want a drop-down with embedded checkboxes, then
> > it will require some overrides of AS's default behavior...
>
> > Ryan
>
> > On Mar 12, 5:11 pm, thoraxe <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > think about doing a custom view and hacking some custom code in, and
> > > look at this article:http://www.petersblog.org/node/1459
>
> > > shouldn't be terribly hard.
>
> > > On Mar 12, 4:49 pm, sergio_101 <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > i have been using streamlined for some time now, and the very last
> > > > problem that i had turned out to be a show stopper. that being the
> > case,
> > > > i am thinking about changing the existing project over to
> > > > activescaffold.
>
> > > > i am sure the answer to this problem is probably easy to find, but i
> > > > want to make absolutely sure that i can do this before i continue. i
> > > > tried looking at the demo site, but the demo site appears to be down..
>
> > > > what i would like to do is:
>
> > > > when a model has a :has_many or HABTM relationship, rather than having
> > a
> > > > drop down select box, have a drop down box with checkboxes.
>
> > > > the problem we are having is that users who are not familiar with the
> > > > behavior of a multiple select box (using the ctl button to select
> > > > multis) can very easily select one, while deselecting the others, and
> > > > save the record, destorying the rest of the data..
>
> > > > anyone have anything on this?
>
> > > > thanks!
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