Re: Updating multiple models with one form submission

2006-11-28 Thread yun
I can't say that I know the answer since I haven't tried it, yet. In the example that I referenced, the fields were defined and set in the manipulator class. You might be able to to do this as two different forms, that appear on the same page, the javascript may update an ingredient model through

Re: Updating multiple models with one form submission

2006-11-28 Thread flynnguy
Thanks yun, it seems I need to look into a custom manipulator. I do have one question though... Can you have an arbitrary number of form fields or do you have to define them all in the manipulator? An example would be if I want to be able to add ingredient fields (with javascript) so I would say

Re: Updating multiple models with one form submission

2006-11-28 Thread yun
You can modify multiple models with the same view. I've managed to do it, but involved creating my own manipulator. This isn't nearly as scarry as it sounds, once you understand what's going on. I posted what I did on a http://ssy5.blogspot.com/2006/11/taking-care-of-registration.html";>blog . The

Updating multiple models with one form submission

2006-11-28 Thread flynnguy
I had a question a while ago about updating multiple models with one form submission but got no responses so I am going to try and reword it and hopefully someone can help me. I have two models, a recipe model and an ingredients model. The ingredient model is simple and just looks like this