Any AJAX Gurus Willing to Help Me Strong-Arm ReorderList?
12/8/2006 6:35:30 PM
So my latest project has to have a certain functionality that is dragging and dropping items on a screen. Easy. I have used ASP.NET AJAX to accomplish this so far; namely the ReorderList control. Very easy to use when only having to sort one item because, well; that`s all it seems to support. This control could be very useful if you could perform multidimensional sorting.
I will help potential gurus hopefully help me by creating, or attempting to create a visual. The table below is very simple. The far left (cornflowerblue) column will serve as the primary key. The far right (grey) column is a null value that is stored in the database. A value could be moved here and an update would occur in the database.
Let's say I wanted to move 1 over to 5. I would want my table to now look like:
Now let's move 5 to the second row and replace the null value.
This would be nice, but not a priority. Actually, I don't care but if there is an obvious way please let me know how to accomplish this.
This functionality has to exist out there. If 12 year-olds are organizing their top 16 friends on MySpace with this functionality then I should be able to find an example right? I'm glad I finally took the plunge in learning AJAX. As far as samples and beginner-level functionality goes I was surprised at how easy it was to get started.
If anyone has any familiarity with the problem I am having, knows of a good book, blog, magazine, or you simply "know a guy" please leave a comment or send me an e-mail.
UPDATE
I found javascript that is close to what I need. Here is the link.
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