Would someone show how to implement a periodical save of a form in the background? Same kinda thing that gmail does. I would like to autosave a form ajax wise so a technician in the field would have it saved off in case of a wireless disconnect while filling out a form. thanks. I would guess on doing the periodically call remote but how do you submit the form?
A caveat, It has to be done with the form already having been created. So doing an observe form with a form id will not work as the form id id being generated by rails as it is in edit mode. On May 8, 9:38 pm, Me <chabg...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:> Would someone show how to implement a periodical save of a form in the > background? Same kinda thing that gmail does. I would like to > autosave a form ajax wise so a technician in the field would have it > saved off in case of a wireless disconnect while filling out a form. > thanks. > > I would guess on doing the periodically call remote but how do you > submit the form?
I am not sure about your situation, but I would use observe_form set and :frequency to seconds at which changes to this field will be detected. This should work with the existing form. See the documentation. http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/PrototypeHelper.html
In this case, he does not even have to observe the form. He can just call a script on page load which shoots off an Ajax submit and update on the form every minute or so. On May 9, 8:26 am, Glen <withhaw...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:> I am not sure about your situation, but I would use observe_form set > and :frequency to seconds at which changes to this field will be > detected. This should work with the existing form. > > See the documentation.http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/PrototypeHelper...