Example of "my" Simple Edit

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I have been working recently on a way to easily update a listing of calendar events, and I wanted to share my experience. I must say, it sounded daunting at first, but once I found the triggers that would allow you to set metadata fields and asset attributes, it made my life easier. We have about 100 events each month in our calendar, and they are constantly changing dates, times, descriptions, names, etc. So it is a pain to update each one of these individually by going into simple edit and updating it. I have created a calendar listing for each month, so there is a quick like to simple edit for each asset, but still, that was not fast enough.


So, here is what I came up with. A way so have a "quick edit" for each asset, while being able to see current values for each field, and being able to make multiple edits to different assets, and submit each one without refreshing the page. This will save huge amounts of time (after I implement my dev version) by allowing us to make edits to, say, 20 calendar events, clicking save for each without a reload, and finally, when done, hitting reload to see all of my newly updated assets.



Here are some pics:



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Just thought this might be helpful if anyone is interested. And yes, it works. :slight_smile:
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Very nifty. :slight_smile:

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After I implement this I will be working on an asset creation version of this same idea. :)
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Really nice.

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I am curious about something.


I am considering 2 ways to go about saving the assets after they have been changed. Currently, I have it implemented where each asset has its own submit button, which works quite well. BUT, I can see the advantages of having only one submit or save button for the entire page rather than each asset. Does anyone see problems that this could cause when the page would be trying to submit every asset that I have listed (using my triggers) and processing them at the same time? Somehow I have a feeling this might not be the best idea, and I should stick with each asset having its own submit button.



Any thoughts on this?