[development] Creating recordset displays

[larry at garfieldtech.com]

There's also the "scaffolding" template module here, courtesy Jeff Eaton:

http://cvs.drupal.org/viewvc.py/drupal/contributions/docs/developer/examples/scaffolding_example/

Stupid long CVS URLs...

--Larry Garfield

andrew morton wrote:
> I'd suggest looking at the Views Bulk Operation module:
> http://drupal.org/project/views_bulk_operations
> 
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Raja Sekharan <websweetweb at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> In many applications I create I find myself doing just one thing -
>> create CRUD interfaces in the admin panel. So far I have been writing
>> code to generate the list of items and everything.
>>
>> Is it possible to create a recordset form using any API in drupal?
>> Here is what I want to do:
>>
>> I want to generate a list for my entities [for example products]. It
>> should be very similar to the Gmail inbox - with a checkbox next to
>> each entry and the ability to sort according to any field. Users
>> should be able to check a set of items and select a drop down menu to
>> perform some action. This should be a form of course.
>>
>> If this isn't possible with the Drupal API out of the box I'd be happy
>> if you can give me a brief outline of how this can be achieved.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Raj Sekharan
>>
>>
>>
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>>