collective.fieldedit 1.0a1

Features

• Nice to use in modals/popups fo allow editong one ore more fields (but not all)

• Select the field or fields you want to edit

• For each field you can choose between input, display and hidden.

• Uses the same widgets and validators as the default edit-form

• Respects schema-hints like field-permissions, invariants and widgets

Use it by adding a link to the view @@field_edit_form and pass the fiels you want to edit as a query-string with up to three parameters separated by a “:” for each field.

Examples

A link that opens the view to edit the title of this object in a modal:

<a href="${python:context.absolute_url()}/field_edit_form?fields=IBasic.title"
   class="pat-plone-modal"
   data-pat-plone-modal='{"actionOptions": {"reloadWindowOnClose": false, "redirectOnResponse": true},
                          "buttons": ".formControls > button",
                          "content": "#content-core"}'>
    Edit the Title in a modal
</a>

Edit multiple fields:

<a href="${python:context.absolute_url()}/@@field_edit_form?fields=field1&amp;fields=field2&amp;fields=field3"
    Edit some fields.
</a>

Display one field, edit another”

<a href="${python:context.absolute_url()}/@@field_edit_form?fields=field1:display&amp;fields=field2"
    Edit one field, display another.
</a>

Hide the label:

<a href="${python:context.absolute_url()}/@@field_edit_form?fields=field1::0"
    Edit one field, display another.
</a>

Add a hidden field:

<a href="${python:context.absolute_url()}/@@field_edit_form?fields=field1:hidden&amp;fields=field2"
    Edit one field, display another.
</a>

Behavior-fields need to be prefixed with the Bahavior:

<a href="${python:context.absolute_url()}/@@field_edit_form?fields=IBasic.title"
    Edit one field, display another.
</a>

Documentation

TODO

Installation

Install collective.fieldedit by adding it to your buildout:

[buildout]

...

eggs =
    collective.fieldedit

and then running bin/buildout

Contribute

• Issue Tracker: https://github.com/collective/collective.fieldedit/issues

• Source Code: https://github.com/collective/collective.fieldedit

License

The project is licensed under the GPLv2.

1.0a1 (2017-10-10)

• Initial release. [pbauer]