Well, I like your idea. Do you think you could post it to web2pyslices? On Tuesday, July 8, 2014 8:16:12 PM UTC-7, Francisco Ribeiro wrote: > > Derek, > that bit where you mention hooking "run-time" validation to be saved, is > pretty much what I’m doing in my post. You need to consider that you might > not have a complete record to insert, but one field at the time, hence why > I create the ‘updateTableService()’. From what I understand, the only > difference between what you suggest and what I did, is that on my code, the > validation is fully done on the server side. The advantages are that I can > apply validators such as ‘isUnique’ (among others that require the DB > access) as well enforce input validation (from a security standpoint, there > is no such thing as client-side input validation). The downside is > obviously performance whenever things don’t even need to reach the > server-side and parsley is able to do them immediately within the browser. > > I guess I could add parsley to get the best of both worlds... > > Thank you, > Francisco > > On 7 Jul 2014, at 22:07, Derek <sp1...@gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote: > > If you read, I suggested that when the 'page close' or 'navigate away' > event is fired, you can trigger a save then (one option). You can use > parsely to manage your validators (because you don't want to save invalid > data). It will do run-time validation, which you can then hook into to do > the saving for you, so as soon as valid data is entered, it is saved. > > Another option is to collect a small amount of information at a time. Such > like a 'wizard' interface. Take a look here for what I'm talking about: > > http://parsleyjs.org/doc/examples/multisteps.html > > > On Friday, June 13, 2014 3:29:20 PM UTC-7, Francisco Ribeiro wrote: >> >> Thank you for stepping up to reply but 'parsely' looks more like a >> library for client-side form validation which is not really the major >> problem I am trying to address. My goal is to have a mechanism that stores >> (with persistence) information provided by the user as soon as possible >> once it is provided input field by input field (on focusOut event) , rather >> than just doing all at once when the form is submitted. Anyway, thanks :) >> >> Francisco >> >> >> On Friday, 13 June 2014 21:06:48 UTC+1, Derek wrote: >>> >>> Try 'parsely' >>> >>> http://parsleyjs.org/doc/examples/simple.html >>> >>> and prompt on page close to save first. >>> >>> On Wednesday, June 11, 2014 7:43:41 PM UTC-7, Francisco G. T. Ribeiro >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> hi all, >>>> I'm working on an app that uses forms that can be quite long and its >>>> users often interrupt their sessions for whatever reason and end up losing >>>> the information already filled. For this and other reasons I wanted to >>>> provide a different behaviour to these forms where each input field >>>> updates >>>> the record on the database as soon as its input field is released >>>> ('focusOut' event on jQuery). Ideally, the server would reply with >>>> 'success' or an error message so users know when they can move on to >>>> another field (without refreshing the whole page). By the end of the form, >>>> the user wouldn't have to review things that were written long ago since >>>> these were all already validated. >>>> >>>> Now, I know this can be tricky due to database constrains but because i >>>> need to do this very often (multiple fields and multiple forms), I thought >>>> it would be useful to automate it, maybe even by having on the db Field >>>> something like '..auto_update=True' (merely a suggestion) but before >>>> getting there, I would like to know if anyone has faced this problem and >>>> if >>>> yes what solution did you employ? >>>> >>>> Thank you in advance, >>>> Francisco >>>> >>>> > -- > Resources: > - http://web2py.com > - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) > - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) > - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "web2py-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/web2py/v1MD3u5ZLm0/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > web2py+un...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > >
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