Add a record to a lookup table without leaving the current form
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Eugenio
Example: you are in the form “Orders” and you have to select the customer from a dropdown menu (lookup); it’s a new customer so if you want to insert him/her specifying all the details you have to leave the form, add the customer and then come back. The idea is to add a + sign close to the dropdown menu that allows, through a popup window, to insert the customer.
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Eugenio
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The feature is now available in DaDaBIK 11 Elba!
h2fuelcell
Any timeframe or future version when this new feature might be released? Just curious.
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Eugenio
h2fuelcell: Spoiler alert :) - Hopefully in May DaDaBIK 11 will be out and it will contain many new features including this one.
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LurkingKiwi
I assume this + button will only show if the user has rights to create in the lookup table
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Eugenio
LurkingKiwi: Yes.
Ken Christensen
Wouldn't this be a solution to the editing M:M intersection table issue also? I'm thinking that instead of a 'popup' just take the user to the 'create new' form and when they 'goback' or 'save & goback' take them back to where they pushed the '+'.
In the 'create new' form, if they've come from a '+' button, prevent them from going off somewhere else to keep the navigation sane or keep a detailed 'came from' stack.
And/or another 'button' like '++' to take them to the edit form if the intersection table already has a value. E.g., in book:author intersect, allow '+' to add a new author and '++' to change details of an existing author.
Just thinking aloud, I guess.
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Eugenio
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Development started!
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Larry K
IMO, this should be a standard option for any insert for any table... not only lookup tables. Make this "settings" part of the config for the field: popup insert --> yes or no.