On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 7:04 PM, Larry Martell <larry.mart...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 5:40 PM, Larry Martell <larry.mart...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have a model and I want to have this behaviour in admin:
>>
>> 1. Only the add button is shown.
>> 2. When the user clicks the add button, it brings up the standard
>> page, but with just 1 custom button shown.
>> 3. When the user clicks that custom button, I execute an ajax call and
>> display the results below the add div, and this page is shown until
>> the user clicks a button.
>>
>> I have all this coded, but I am facing the following problems:
>>
>> 1. I am not getting the response back from my ajax call. In the Chrome
>> developers tools, in the network tab for this request, in the
>> Status/Text column, it says "(cancelled)" - not sure what that means.
>> If I run the same request from my browser I do get a response. On the
>> server side I am getting 'error: (32, 'Broken pipe')' Googling that
>> revealed that it's because the browser has already moved on, so there
>> is nothing to receive the response. I've tried setting the timeout to
>> a large value, but no joy. How can I get it to wait for the response?
>
> I solved the above issue - I was not returning false from the onclick
> hander. Once i did that I started getting the response.
>
>
> But I am still trying to solve the 2 issues below.
>
>> 2. It immediately returns back to the main admin page - how can I get
>> it to stay on the add page until the users clicks a button?
I solved this issue - I removed type="submit" from my custom button.
I then added another button they can click to return.
Now I'm left with just issue 3 - how to prevent the row from being
added to the database. Anyone know how to do that?
>> 3. After my code returns, a row is added to the database. How can I
>> prevent the row from being added?
>>
>> This is my change_form.html:
>>
>> {% extends "admin/change_form.html" %}
>>
>> {% block submit_buttons_bottom %}
>> <div class="submit-row">
>> <input type="submit" value="Configure" class="default"
>> name="configure"
>> onclick="configureTools(document.getElementById('id_tool_configuration').value);"
>> />
>> </div>
>>
>> <script src="/static/scripts/jquery-1.7.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
>>
>> <script type="text/javascript">
>> function configureTools(tcd) {
>> var toolConfigData = tcd;
>> $.ajax({
>> type : 'GET',
>> url: '{% url 'motor.configuration.views.configure' %}',
>> data: 'toolConfigData='+toolConfigData,
>> success: function(configOut) {
>> $('.submit-row').after(
>> $('<span />')
>> .html('<pre> Confguration succeded\n'+configOut+'</pre>')
>> );
>> },
>> error: function(configOut) {
>> $('.submit-row').after(
>> $('<span />')
>> .html('<pre> Confguration failed\n'+configOut+'</pre>')
>> );
>> }
>> });
>> };
>> </script>
>>
>> {% endblock %}
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