On Friday 04 July 2008 10:30:22 am Edward Peters wrote:

Is there any way to define a field in a table view which triggers a change to a value in the row of that table? For example, the Organic Groups list view has a 'join link' field which when clicked subscribes the user to that group. At present, if I want to change a value, I can have an 'edit' link which goes to the form, and then back to the view after saving the change. It would be neater to have a one-step action.

Thanks

Edward Peters Oxford, UK www.iofc.org

You don't want to have a link that triggers a data change. That's in violation of the HTTP spec as well as a security hole. :-)

However, you could have a link that links to a confirmation page with a button, and the button triggers a change. That sounds like what you're doing already.

It *may* be possible (I've not tried) to do some fanciness with the theming of a given "field" to render a single-button form, and that will be your join "link". (Style the button to look not like a button.) See the existing code for edit and delete links for a model and try to extrapolate from there. I'm not sure if this will work, but it may.