[support] "Editable Fields"

[Vaibhav Jain]

Chris,
You can try a module - Editable Views -
https://drupal.org/project/editableviews
Hope this works out for you ...


On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 11:50 PM, Metzler, David <metzlerd at evergreen.edu>wrote:

>  The only real way to do this is to write code.
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> There may be some capability for this in Views Bulk Operations project.
> There’s a relavent stack exchange answer:
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> http://drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/10861/taxonomy-bulk-edit-in-drupal-7
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> *From:* support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] *On
> Behalf Of *Chris Miller
> *Sent:* Monday, December 09, 2013 8:47 AM
> *To:* support at drupal.org
> *Subject:* [support] "Editable Fields"
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> Hi Folks,
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> I have a content-type with a taxonomy.  I want to display a view of
> content title and taxonomy in a grid.  I want to display the taxonomy as a
> set of checkboxes so I can review all of the content and make global
> changes from just the one view. This raises the question about the
> difference between a field's display and edit characteristics.
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> If i want to display a node, I can call node_load() and so on...  Suppose
> I want to display a node for edit?  How does this internal processing
> differ, because obviously the result is substantially different.  I suspect
> there is some magic that turns the page into a form, and that becomes the
> substance of my question.  If I have a field, how to I change it from a
> "display" field to an editable "form" field?
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> To further qualify the question: I could easily create a custom formater
> and display the taxonomy field is a set of HTML checkboxes, but how do I
> discover these display characteristics, like label, colon and position;
> Alpha or numeric order; and then there are all the styling <div>s, which
> should be consistent with other fields on the page.  These things are all
> specified in the original content type and I think I should make the effort
> to recognize and honor these choices, so I need to know how and where they
> are stored, and I don't currently know, but I think it is probably in the
> "page" ==> "form" magic.
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> Chris.
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Regards,
Vaibhav Jain
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