Previously we looked at the new ColdFusion 8 data grid and how to populate that control using asynchronous calls back to a ColdFusion Component. In that example the CFC contained a single method that returned a page of data as requested by the data grid.
Like the previous incarnations of
You will recall that
There are three changes in this
The specified CFC has to accept these three arguments, and returns no data. Within the CFC you can use
UPDATE artists
SET #colname# = '#value#'
WHERE artistid = #ARGUMENTS.gridrow.artistid#
DELETE FROM artists
where artistid = #ARGUMENTS.gridrow.artistid#
The code uses a
Here is the complete artists.cfc, with both the bind and onchange methods:
SELECT artistid, lastname, firstname, email
FROM artists
ORDER BY #ARGUMENTS.gridsortcolumn# #ARGUMENTS.gridsortdir#
UPDATE artists
SET #colname# = '#value#'
WHERE artistid = #ARGUMENTS.gridrow.artistid#
DELETE FROM artists
WHERE artistid = #ARGUMENTS.gridrow.artistid#
We’ll look at additional
ColdFusion Ajax Tutorial 6: Editable Data Grids
38 responses to “ColdFusion Ajax Tutorial 6: Editable Data Grids”
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Great stuff – thanks Ben!
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Hi Ben,
With the columns, how do I do it so if I double click on one it opens up a new edit page with a primary key in the url?
e.g
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I am currently working on a cfgrid which contains comments of users to another user.
The delete button is great, but i am in need of another button named: Approve.
My question therefore is… am I able to add custom buttons? Specifically to the CFC it will be great cause we can specify which letter to send for our custom button, instead of just having U and D.
I know we’re asking for much some times, so let me just say this version of coldfusion can make us proud when arguing 😉 -
Brett – we don’t support the double click event on the grid from within CF (though is something that we’ll consider for CF9). You can register a function to trigger on the double click event by getting the grid object using ColdFusion.Grid.getGridObject(<gridId>), which returns an object of type Ext.grid.Grid. See the documentation at http://extjs.com/deploy/ext/docs/index.html for details of how to register for the double click event on the grid – both row and cell double click events are supported.
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Alexander – we don’t provide a way for you to add more buttons to the grid. The easy way out would be to have regular HTML button outside the grid, which triggers a JavaScript function to do your approve logic. From within that function, you can get the value of columns in the selected grid row using ColdFusion.Bind.getElementValue(<gridId>, <columnName>).
Alternatively, though this will be more work, you can get the underlying grid object, as I’ve outlined in the last comment, and add buttons to it’s toolbar. See the Ext API (referenced above) documentation for details. -
Thanks for your clarification, one more problem i am facing is with the related selects. I cannot keep the selected option selected after the form is submitted.
<cfselect name="x_country_id" bind="cfc:cfc.register.getCountries()" bindonload="true" /> -
Thanks Ashwin, I meant a single click sorry, I can’t seem to append the id to the url and can’t find any documentation on it?
Many thanks,
Brett -
Does CFGrid allow for selects inside the grid? I’m thinking about a grid that contains something like firstname, lastname, department where department would be a lookup to a department table.
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The data grid is very exiting; but how can I bind a grid to a cftree ?
I want to expand the example 5 to a tree combined with a grid to display the items.
I can´t find any information on that. Where do others look after such thing. The adobe or MM – docs are often very small. -
Loving the new CFGRID, although i’ve bumped into a little problem, and wondered if you had any insight into it?
I have a grid with over 20 columns, some editable, some not. The grid being this wide, puts some of the columns off the visible screen when rendered. Data all loads fine, and all text fields that are editable are all perfect. The problem appears when you try to edit a drop down box field that was rendered in an area off the visible screen when the grid first appears. In IE7, it places the drop down options in a position to the left of the actual cell, and in FF it scrolls you back to the far left of the screen and no edit features appear.
I just wondered if you had seen this behaviour before, or if there is something in our page that is causing the problem. I’m also currently posting in the EXT forums to see if this is a problem they have.
Any help much appreciated.
Mat Evans -
Following on from my above post I have discovered a few things and developed a work around.
It seems the Ext grid is designed to work within it’s own scrolling div, with the class .x-grid-container, and a div under that with the class .x-grid .
In CF, this div is spread out accross the whole page, whereas is should really be the width of the viewable screen. To get round the problem of breaking the drop downs, you have to add some class info right at the end of your header.
.x-grid-container {
max-width:1000px;
width:1000px !important;
}
.x-grid {
width:1000px;
}
These seem to solve the problem I have been having by setting the size of the viewable section of the grid to the above values. The !important is for IE6.
Hope that helps for anyone who finds themselves in the same situation.
Mat Evans -
Really liking playing with the new grid.
One strange thing is that I can’t get the pagesize working? Doesn’t appear in the suggest or livedocs any more and when i copy the code above I just get a normal grid with no pagination?
Any ideas – this is my first few tries so maybe I’m missing something
Cheers
Peter -
What about an insert button?
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When I connect up my databas to the grid and I I cant get the grigd to page 10 per page. Am I missing somthing?, It works for your example though. heres the simple code Im using..
<cfform>
<cfinput name="searchString" />
<cfinput type="button" name="searchBtn" value="Search" onclick="" />
<cfgrid query="R1"
name="artGrid"
format="html"
pagesize="10"
striperows="yes"
selectmode="edit"
highlighthref="yes"
delete="yes"
sort="true">
<cfgridcolumn name="id" header="First Name" width="100" display="no"/>
<cfgridcolumn name="weather" header="weather" width="100"/>
<cfgridcolumn name="cities" header="cities" width="100"/>
<cfgridcolumn name="province" header="province" width="100"/>
</cfgrid>
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Ashwin,
you had said to use ColdFusion.Bind.getElementValue(<gridid>, <column>) in order to add external (html/javascript) buttons to the grid, but i was unable to get it to work using this… did you mean ColdFusion.Bind.getBindElementValue() ? or ColdFusion.getElementValue()? i found both of these in the DOM, but was unable to get either to work using this:
<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">
function myFunction()
{
var myVar = ColdFusion.Bind.getBindElementValue(‘accountants’, ‘first_name’)
alert(myVar)
}
</script>
<cfgrid name="accountants" format="html" pagesize="5" striperows="true" bind="cfc:removed.to.protect.the.innocent" delete="true" selectmode="edit" onchange="cfc:removed.to.protect.the.innocent">
<!— <cfgridcolumn name="checked" header="Delete" type="boolean"> —>
<cfgridcolumn name="app_advisorInfo_id" display="no" >
<cfgridcolumn name="app_advisorType_id" >
<cfgridcolumn name="first_name">
<cfgridcolumn name="last_name">
<!—
<cfgridcolumn name="Relationship">
<cfgridcolumn name="Specialty">
<cfgridcolumn name="Agency">
<cfgridcolumn name="address">
<cfgridcolumn name="address2">
<cfgridcolumn name="City">
<cfgridcolumn name="State">
<cfgridcolumn name="zipcode">
<cfgridcolumn name="phone">
<cfgridcolumn name="country">
<cfgridcolumn name="fax">
<cfgridcolumn name="notes">
<cfgridcolumn name="fiduciaryType">
<cfgridcolumn name="cs_user_id">
<cfgridcolumn name="isPrimary">
—>
</cfgrid>
<input type="button" name="approve" value="approve" onclick="myFunction()">
this is the error i get:
_6b has no properties
http://127.0.0.1:8500/CFIDE/scripts/ajax/package/cfgrid.js
Line 218
_6b has no properties
_cf_getAttribute(undefined)cfgrid.js (line 218)
getBindElementValue("accountants", "first_name", undefined, undefined, undefined)cfajax.js (line 334)
myFunction()index.cfm (line 277)
onclick(click clientX=0, clientY=0) -
as an adendum… if i remove the quotes from the variables for <gridid> and <column> (accountants, first_name) … i get:
accountants is not defined
myFunction()index.cfm (line 277)
onclick(click clientX=0, clientY=0)
it seems that the grid ID is some random ID every time? how do i obtain that?
-jim -
Ray Camden confimed for me that it is in fact: ColdFusion.getElementValue(‘gridid’, ‘columnname’). Once I get it working, I’ll post.
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Hello,
Excellent blog, I love Ajax.
Now, I am trying to test your code but I am getting "CFGRID: Response is empty" .
Here is Ajax logger:
error:widget: CFGRID: Response is empty
info:http: CFC invocation response:
info:widget: Creating window: cf_window1187741966251
info:widget: Created grid, id: artists
info:http: HTTP GET /rootH111689/test/artists.cfc?method=getArtists&returnFormat=json&argumentCollection=%7B%22page%22%3A1%2C%22pageSize%22%3A10%2C%22gridsortcolumn%22%3A%22%22%2C%22gridsortdir%22%3A%22%22%7D&_cf_nodebug=true&_cf_nocache=true&_cf_clientid=15B305EB130F54D0CEC3251443274B76&_cf_rc=0
info:http: Invoking CFC: /rootH111689/test/artists.cfc , function: getArtists , arguments: {"page":1,"pageSize":10,"gridsortcolumn":"","gridsortdir":""}
info:LogReader: LogReader initialized
info:global: Logger initialized
Thanks!
Jose. -
I am sorry, I got it. Application.cfc not configured properly.
Thanks!
Jose Cabrita. -
I have the same error than you :
"widget: CFGRID: Response is empty"
You say you’ve got problems with your Application.cfc, could you explain me what you’ve done for correcting this error?
Thanks. -
Ben I found that the code as displayed didn’t work for me however when I modified the code example to add single quotations around the var in the WHERE clauses then the code work as described… was this a misprint in the example…???
Modified example below…
<!— Process gridaction —>
<cfswitch expression="#ARGUMENTS.gridaction#">
<!— Process updates —>
<cfcase value="U">
<!— Get column name and value —>
<cfset colname=StructKeyList(ARGUMENTS.gridchanged)>
<cfset value=ARGUMENTS.gridchanged[colname]>
<!— Perform actual update —>
<cfquery datasource="#THIS.dsn#">
UPDATE artists
SET #colname# = ‘#value#’
WHERE artistid = ‘#ARGUMENTS.gridrow.artistid#’ <!— Added Single Quotes around var —>
</cfquery>
</cfcase>
<!— Process deletes —>
<cfcase value="D">
<!— Perform actual delete —>
<cfquery datasource="#THIS.dsn#">
DELETE FROM artists
where artistid = ‘#ARGUMENTS.gridrow.artistid#’ <!— Added Single Quotes around var —>
</cfquery>
</cfcase>
</cfswitch>
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Regarding "widget: CFGRID: Response is empty" error:
For some reason OnRequest function and ajax or remoting services don’t work together, so you have to block on request. In my case, I am calling methods from CFC’s so I include this lines at the end of onRequestStart in Application.cfc:
<cffunction name = "onRequestStart">
<cfparam name="CGI.REMOTE_ADDR" default="">
.
.
.
<cfif CGI.SCRIPT_NAME Contains "cfc">
<cfset temp = structDelete(this,’onRequest’)>
</cfif>
<cfreturn true>
</cffunction>
I hope this will help you.
Jose. -
OK… another use asked here and the attributes appear to be in CFEclipse… where is the insert attribute examples? It seems looking at the docs this feature was overlooked.
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Hi Ben,
Great article on CFGRID. I was testing out some theories using a drop down box. I changed one line to:
<cfgridcolumn name="email" header="E-Mail" values="Force,Yes,No"/>
I can go in and edit using the drop down. when I select Force and update, everything works fine. When I select Yes, and update, it returns true. When I select No, and update, it returns false. Is there anything I can do to get around this?
Thanks! Matt -
I know the article is old; however, I have a problem. I have an editable cfgrid (html format) which displays people; one column holds a rank, and that is an id column which ties to a lookup table that holds the corresponding rank names. The grid calls a cfc for the query. In the rank column, I want to display a select list which shows all available ranks, but I want the rank for each individual preselected in that drop-down listing–so the user can select/edit a person’s rank by its wording, but the rankid number is actually the thing which gets passed.
So, has anyone figured out how to have a query-populated grid which includes a select list column based upon a lookup query? I really thought I saw somewhere one time where a guy figured it out, but now I can’t locate it anymore. Thanks if anyone can help! -
Sorry to bump an oooold article, but I was hoping someone could help me figure out why this code is not working on my system. I’m not getting any errors, and the AJAX debug window is showing everything as kosher as well, including showing the records that should be returned by the getArtists method. However, the CFGRID in the CFWINDOW never returns any records. Any idea what could be the issue here?
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Nevermind. Just found the problem. A: use both FireFox and IE when trying to debug your CFGRID. You might get different results. Doing so, in IE, I found I was getting the "window:global: Exception thrown and not caught" error. Turns out this was due to our Application.cfm having a single html comment at the top of the file. Pulling that out, the bind works fine, and thus the example code you provided, Ben, works fine.
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If you’re getting CFGRID: Response is empty, and I know this sounds like a no-brainer, check your SQL statement carefully. That was my issue.
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This is a great example. Everything work! If I want to change the edit button to other text, how can I do it? Right now the edit button is just a circuling star.
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As always your blog was very helpful. I am running CF9 and LOVE the new features for cfgrid! There isn’t much out there regarding cfgrid for Coldfusion 9 yet….wondering if it is possible to add log in/log out capability within cfgrid using CF9?
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How can I update a checkbox? I have a cfgridcolumn set to type= boolean, but the component gives me error when update…
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How to update cfgridcolumn type boolean?
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Indeed, yes: how about checkboxes?
The only way I’ve been able to get a boolean field to display a checkbox is to make the grid editable, and even then it still displays "true" or "false" until one clicks on the cell twice.
Am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug?
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Adam -
I setup my editable grid to accept updates just as setup
here and I’m getting a database error: "Error
Executing database query"
Just not working, but the delete works with no problem.
mt -
I have an bindable cfgrid that updates like it should (I see the red triangle). I need to know how to refresh the grid to show updated information based on the update.
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Love the example but how would you refresh the grid or re render the grid after the update? I know the changes are automatic after the edit but if the edit affects other columns how would you refresh the grid after the update?
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I know the topic is a bit old, but I had to delve into the
ColdFusion.getElementValue(‘gridid’,’columnname’) issue mentioned
in some of the above comments.
Looking at the getElementValue function, it has 3 parameters, not two.
From the ColdFusion 8 Documentation:
ColdFusion.getElementValue(elementId [, formId, attributeName])
I found that adding the ‘formId’ parameter solved a problem that
I was having when targeting a cell of the cfgrid. So try:
ColdFusion.getElementValue(‘gridName’, ‘formName’, ‘columnName’);
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Hi Ben, I need to create a purchase order
that gives the user the ability to add multiple items to it, The user enters the data, clicks on the "Add Another" Button, or "enter"
, and a new row is added to the form and the previous data entered is kept intact, how can do this?
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