Re: [Catalyst] Suggestions on how to handle 12 page form

2010-11-17 Thread Rippl, Steve
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 10:38 PM, Octavian Rasnita octavian.rasn...@ssifbroker.ro wrote: Hi Bill, I think the best approach is to create an action for each page of the form and after each form submission partially update one or more database tables, saving a marker that shows which was

Re: [Catalyst] Suggestions on how to handle 12 page form

2010-11-17 Thread Nicholas Wehr
I did the same as Mark, saving the form in progress was a product requirement but also a good user experience. I used extjs to make a pretty slick wizard, with questions dynamically created based on previous answers. Caveat: significant learning curve - http://dev.sencha.com/deploy/ext/examples/

Re: [Catalyst] Suggestions on how to handle 12 page form

2010-11-17 Thread Octavian Rasnita
- From: Rippl, Steve rip...@woodlandschools.org To: The elegant MVC web framework catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 5:48 PM Subject: Re: [Catalyst] Suggestions on how to handle 12 page form On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 10:38 PM, Octavian Rasnita octavian.rasn...@ssifbroker.ro

Re: [Catalyst] Suggestions on how to handle 12 page form

2010-11-17 Thread Bogdan Lucaciu
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Octavian Rasnita orasn...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the example. I think that the following line could be improved: $form-load_config_filestem($c-config-{root}./forms/students/info$form_id); to be (untested):    

Re: [Catalyst] Suggestions on how to handle 12 page form

2010-11-17 Thread Octavian Rasnita
From: Bogdan Lucaciu bog...@sinapticode.ro On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Octavian Rasnita orasn...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the example. I think that the following line could be improved: $form-load_config_filestem($c-config-{root}./forms/students/info$form_id); to be (untested):

[Catalyst] Suggestions on how to handle 12 page form

2010-11-16 Thread Hauck, William B.
Hi. I'm working on the project request section of our new project tracking system. The request form is broken up into 12 pages-yes, lots and lots of data to be submitted. Anyone have any experience / advice on how to handle that many fields? Should I use a single subroutine to handle it all

Re: [Catalyst] Suggestions on how to handle 12 page form

2010-11-16 Thread Thiago Rondon
Em 16-11-2010 20:01, Hauck, William B. escreveu: Hi. I'm working on the project request section of our new project tracking system. The request form is broken up into 12 pages-yes, lots and lots of data to be submitted. Anyone have any experience / advice on how to handle that many fields?

Re: [Catalyst] Suggestions on how to handle 12 page form

2010-11-16 Thread Victor Churchill
Put it all on one page and use JS in the template to toggle different divs? ___ List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive:

Re: [Catalyst] Suggestions on how to handle 12 page form

2010-11-16 Thread Kieren Diment
On 17/11/2010, at 9:50 AM, Victor Churchill wrote: Put it all on one page and use JS in the template to toggle different divs? Having dealt with some large forms recently(and depending on how heavy the JS is on the page), this can result in browser slowdowns in some environments. Probably

Re: [Catalyst] Suggestions on how to handle 12 page form

2010-11-16 Thread Eric Berg
] Suggestions on how to handle 12 page form ___ List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org

Re: [Catalyst] Suggestions on how to handle 12 page form

2010-11-16 Thread Eden Cardim
Eric == Eric Berg eb...@bergbrains.com writes: Eric What about breaking the form up logically and saving each Eric section in a session object as they move through the form. Eric That or incrementally save and maintain a db flag that Eric indicates doneness. Frankly, with.a form

Re: [Catalyst] Suggestions on how to handle 12 page form

2010-11-16 Thread Octavian Rasnita
From: Hauck, William B. william.ha...@ibx.com Hi. I'm working on the project request section of our new project tracking system. The request form is broken up into 12 pages-yes, lots and lots of data to be submitted. Anyone have any experience / advice on how to handle that many fields?

Re: [Catalyst] Suggestions on how to handle 12 page form

2010-11-16 Thread Mike Raynham
On 16/11/10 22:01, Hauck, William B. wrote: Hi. I'm working on the project request section of our new project tracking system. The request form is broken up into 12 pages-yes, lots and lots of data to be submitted. Anyone have any experience / advice on how to handle that many fields?