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editable fields and computed fields

Posted by BrianJubal on May 15, 2009 at 3:40pm
Project:editablefields
Version:6.x-2.x-dev
Component:Code
Category:feature request
Priority:normal
Assigned:Unassigned
Status:active
Issue tags:Ajax, computed fields, editablefields, update

Issue Summary

I have some editable fields that are used by my computed fields. I'd like to make it so that when one of these editable field is updated, the computed fields are also updated. Right now the computed field is computed (I assume because node_save is called), but it is not displayed until the user refreshes the screen.

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#1

Posted by markfoodyburton on May 18, 2009 at 7:22am

I'd like that too - :-)

#2

Posted by LEternity on August 4, 2009 at 9:22pm

Me too!

#3

Posted by satman on August 9, 2009 at 6:25pm

me too

#4

Posted by bfr on November 18, 2009 at 9:44am

There was some kind ajax refresh module, that helps in this problem.

#5

Posted by LEternity on February 2, 2010 at 9:49pm

bfr would you describe your solution? Thanks!

#6

Posted by LEternity on February 3, 2010 at 9:48pm
Version:6.x-1.2» 6.x-2.x-dev

#7

Posted by dogboy72 on April 27, 2011 at 10:32pm

Couldn't this be done by adding this to the editablefields.js file?:
$(document).ajaxStop(function() { location.reload(true); });

#8

Posted by karenann on April 28, 2011 at 3:18pm

My problem is that I had Editablefield setup on a Content Type "Invoices" and I needed to update a computed field in "Purchase Order" when a field in "Invoices" was changed. In this case, "Invoices" were linked to a "Purchase Order" by a node reference.

I don't like editing modules, so here's what I did. It's not totally tested yet, but seems to work alright so far. It's still kinda hacky, but...

I created a new module mymodule and I'm grabbing the menu item that's called when editablefields submits to make my own function.

function mymodule_menu_alter(&$items) {
  $items['editablefields_submit']['page callback'] = 'mymodule_editablefields_submit';
}

function mymodule_editablefields_submit(){
// actions to be put here
}

I then grabbed the entirety of editablefields_submit() from editablefields.module and pasted it into my new function. Now for the editing:

Since computed fields update on save, I simply needed to execute a save on the referenced node.

I looked for node_save($node), which is what saves the "Invoice" fields and did the following:

// The following chunk is from editablefields_submit(). Editing the copy pasted into mymodule_editablefields_submit

      if (content_handle('widget', 'multiple values', $field) == CONTENT_HANDLE_CORE) {
        if ($node->{$field_name}[$delta] != $form_state['values'][$field_name][0]) {
          $node->{$field_name}[$delta] = $form_state['values'][$field_name][0];
          node_save($node);
          // ADDED CUSTOM FUNCTION to process our own crap as needed.
          mymodule_editablefields_save_referenced_node($node, TRUE);
        }
      }
      else {
        if ($node->{$field_name} != $form_state['values'][$field_name]) {
          $node->{$field_name} = $form_state['values'][$field_name];
          node_save($node);
          // ADDED CUSTOM FUNCTION to process our own crap as needed.
          mymodule_editablefields_save_referenced_node($node);
        }
      }

I then added a new function that's called above.

function mymodule_editablefields_save_referenced_node($node, $multiple = FALSE) {
  // Replace all this with your own.
  // I'm not using this in instances of multiple values, so I omitted it.
  if (!$multiple) {
    $ref = $node->field_your_referenced_node[0]['nid'];
    $node = node_load($ref);
    node_save($node);
  }
}

#9

Posted by dogboy72 on April 28, 2011 at 5:09pm

Ironically, I too am working with a content types named "Purchase Order" and "Purchase Order Details" with the latter having a node reference to the former. Your solution looks good and I agree its better not to hack a module, but in my case this is the only field (so far) that uses editablefields.

I'll give it a try. Thanks for sharing.

#10

Posted by amal850720 on May 7, 2011 at 3:18am

hi dogboy. how's your testing so far? going good?

#11

Posted by ledom on May 8, 2011 at 8:17pm

Thank you dogboy72

Using your tip allow to reload the page and get computed fields updated. We lose benefits of ajax saving but at list it works.

Is there a way to reload only the line where there is the update?

#12

Posted by amal850720 on May 9, 2011 at 3:35am

thanks too do dogboy72. it works fine with a simple single line of code.

i guess it'll be a lot better if only the computed field is updated, instead of the whole page. is there a way to do so?

#13

Posted by snoopy_tn on February 3, 2012 at 3:42pm

The 1-line fix in post #7 doesn't seem to work for the D7 version. I'm trying to get this to work with check boxes. Any help would be appreciated.