Re: adding "duplicate" to scaffolding

2007-07-27 Thread bingomanatee
I wasn't saying that it is a feature that each and every application should and must have -- just a useful modification to know about. When I've fear-proofed my solution I'll pop it into a bakery article. On Jul 27, 1:23 pm, "Chris Hartjes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/27/07, bingomanatee <[

Re: adding "duplicate" to scaffolding

2007-07-27 Thread Chris Hartjes
On 7/27/07, bingomanatee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > True but the convenience to the end users are also a useful metric of > an application's efficiency. especially when (as in my case) they are > also a developer :D Learning to say "no" to a request is the toughest thing a developer has to le

Re: adding "duplicate" to scaffolding

2007-07-27 Thread bingomanatee
True but the convenience to the end users are also a useful metric of an application's efficiency. especially when (as in my case) they are also a developer :D On Jul 27, 12:39 pm, "Chris Hartjes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/27/07, bingomanatee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > as to the "bo

Re: adding "duplicate" to scaffolding

2007-07-27 Thread bingomanatee
I might work that through -- actually I worked through the index template and added a "Copy" link. http://www.wonderlandlabs.com/modules/wiwimod/index.php?page=CakeDupe as to the "borderlineosity" -- its a pretty common way to moprh new records: pick a row that is like the new one you want, dupl

Re: adding "duplicate" to scaffolding

2007-07-27 Thread Chris Hartjes
On 7/27/07, bingomanatee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > as to the "borderlineosity" -- its a pretty common way to moprh new > records: pick a row that is like the new one you want, duplicate it > and tweak it. What you're talking about is the lazy way of creating new records 1) duplicate an existi

Re: adding "duplicate" to scaffolding

2007-07-27 Thread Chris Hartjes
On 7/27/07, bingomanatee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I want to add "duplicate" to the scaffolding of my site; while I can > of course envision a wholly seperate action for duplicate, I have to > think that someone with more familiarity with Cake could help me > "Tweak" the existing views to rep

Re: adding "duplicate" to scaffolding

2007-07-27 Thread bingomanatee
Thats not a very open source-y answer. I was thinking it would be a generally usefu feature for the scaffolding paradigm. On Jul 27, 10:27 am, "Pablo Viojo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If not an scaffolding functionality, it's time to start to write code...I > think no one would like to help wit

Re: adding "duplicate" to scaffolding

2007-07-27 Thread Pablo Viojo
If not an scaffolding functionality, it's time to start to write code...I think no one would like to help wit h this. -- Pablo Viojo [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pviojo.net On 7/27/07, bingomanatee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I want to add "duplicate" to the scaffolding of my site; while I can

adding "duplicate" to scaffolding

2007-07-27 Thread bingomanatee
I want to add "duplicate" to the scaffolding of my site; while I can of course envision a wholly seperate action for duplicate, I have to think that someone with more familiarity with Cake could help me "Tweak" the existing views to repurpose them for inserting a duplicate record with the same val