First of all, as always say, sorry about my english, and my ignorance, sure there are a lot of misunderstanding about I suppose I know.
I've got a big asp.net site (uses master pages, handlers, etc.)and I need my site to compliance to WCAG 2.0. In order to do that I'm trying
to pass all failures especified for WCAG 2.0 AA but after read the H44 technique I realize the forms in my aspx pages don't using fieldset and leyend tags
for my forms, here is where my question arises:
is it mandatory all input controls to use fieldset and leyend tags in order to satisfy the point 1.3.1?
Thanks in advance,
It is not mandatory that all input controls use the fieldset and legend tags, but if you have a group of related input controls then you should use the fieldset and legend tags so the user understands that the fields are related and the user can see how they are related with the content of the legend tag. Also, you should be using label tags on your inputs to identify the field label.
See "H71: Providing a description for groups of form controls using fieldset and legend elements" for more info on fieldset and legend".
Hey folks,
I've been learning MVC 2 and I have pretty much everything understood except for the model part of things, I understand what the model is but actually implementing it has me confused.
Here's my situation, I have my DB which has 3 tables;
Ideas - table of ideas
Tags - table of tags
IdeaTag - link table connecting the above 2 tables via FKs
So when using the Entity Framework (.edmx) designer in VS2010 I get 2 classes created in the Designer, which obviously map to my DB tables and Navigation Properties in Idea for Tags & Idea for Tag.
So this is all fine until I actually try to add tags to an idea, what's the best practise for dealing with Navigation Properties? I wanted to add a Textbox which will then map to the Tags property in the Idea class but I'm unsure how I'd go about this.
Most of the MVC tutorials which discuss EF or Linq to SQL are quite basic.
If there are any suggestions for tutorials or video tutorials which discuss dealing Navigation Properties and how best to deal with them I'd gladly take it on board. Alternatively if there is a better way to implement this I'd happily look into that too.
Seeing as this is basically a Many to Many relationship, check out the accepted answer on this question.
It covers the scenario you are looking for. In your case 'ID' is probably the actual tag, i.e. "Entity Framework" or something.
Using the approach in that sample you can have a textbox, with a comma (or something else) delimited list of tag names. Splitting the contents of the textbox gives you an array of tags that should be in the Idea.Tags collection after you're done.
The only complication you have is I guess, you want to automatically create 'new' tags. So perhaps you'll probably need to check whether the Tag exists before attaching it (to add it to the Idea.Tags collection), if it doesn't exist instead of attaching it you would simply add it, so the new tag gets inserted.
I'm trying to use a docx read in via the OpenXML SDK as template in a .Net web app for form letters (essentially). I have a docx with the formatting I want, marked up with XML Schema tags defined from a xsd (whatever they're called, the help is exceedingly useless on this).
The only thing similar I found on Google was what seemed to be replacing the CustomXmlBlock elements with text elements with the desired data. This seems... messy and fragile.
I also have the added complication that some of the data is hierarchical, with elements for sections, and then items in that section. This would seem to completely break the above method.
So, can someone point me in the right direction for doing this, or suggest a better way to handle templating form letters?
There are a number of choices:
What you're doing, XSD Schema mapping. This was introduced in Word 2003. It was really only truly active in that version of Word as when Word 2007 came out, the preferred new method of forms became #2.
Content Controls. More on this below.
Tried and true are Bookmarks. If you're interested, there is an article here.
For Content Controls 1, the concept is simple: wrap your content controls in the hierarchy needed. That is to say, for example, have a Date Picker Content Control and a Rich Text Content Control and then group them. Then inside the Rich Text Content Control, place a Combo Box Content Control. Eric White has written a great starter article on this at retrieving content from inside of Content Controls at Processing all Content Parts in an Open XML WordprocessingML Document. This article is a much more comprehensive introduction to Content Controls in it's links Using Open XML WordprocessingML Documents as Data Sources.
More links on Content Controls:
Brian Jones' site has a lot of great articles. I believe these were his first: The Easy Way to Assemble Multiple Word Documents and Create a rich Word document based on your own custom XML (without the need for XSLT).
The Word Content Control Toolkit. Probably the best tool around for working with Content Controls.
Visual How To Content. Many articles here deal with Content Controls.
1 To work with Content Controls manually in the Word client, enable the "Developer" Ribbon from Options and then insert Content Controls and set their properties from the left-hand section of the Controls group in the Developer Ribbon.
I have a requirement to implement a "simple" web-based form designer that allows "simple" users to create their own web-based forms. I've come across these things in rich clients, such as Outlook and Acrobat, but my requirements are much simpler and must be web-based.
Pretty layout, custom validation, complex fields and types are simply not a factor. Ideally I would like to find something that is neat like this very SO question composer, in which I'm typing right now, plus the ability to drag a text input box or a checkbox right into the text. Output could be as crude as this:
What is your name? [Fred Bloggs]
Do you have an internet? [x]
I'm using asp.net but the backend technology doesn't really matter as I fear this is all javascript! No need to consider old browsers. Any examples links would be helpful, as well as suggestions for existing open or commercial components. Thank you!
Tried Frevvo ?
Here is a pretty neat one based on jquery Ajax Form Builder
Try FormThis. It allows you to create an Online Web Form at no cost. Drag & Drop designer, Unlimited Fields, Submit/Responses, Calculations, Validation, etc. Can output to PDF if required.
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We are looking for an ASP.NET compatible data grid that allows for multi-line editing similar to Excel or a WinForms data grid. It must also support very basic keyboard input (tab, arrow keys, return). Note that we are not looking for Excel capabilities (functions, formatting, formulas) ... just a grid for fast data entry.
I've looked at Telerik, Infragistics, ComponentOne, DevExpress, and many others ... all their support teams have said that the controls either do not support multi-line, or do so in such a clunky way that it would be unusable.
Has anyone used any Excel-like grids that they can recommend? The client-side grids seemed closer to what we needed, with Sigma Widgets ( example ) being the closest I've found so far. Extjs's grid was too inflexible, and the jQuery grid was too buggy.
It does not exist today. There are products such as those you have mentioned which have tried, but in my experience none of them will make an experienced Excel user happy.
My company makes Excel compatible spreadsheet components for use with Windows Forms and ASP.NET. We have been getting this question for years, so we have of course considered building one because it looks like a good business. But HTML / JavaScript is just not a suitable platform for building something which "feels right" to users who want it to work like Excel - IMO.
We have settled on the idea of building a spreadsheet control for Silverlight. I believe this will give you the best of both worlds - cross platform rich interactive spreadsheet in the browser which any Excel user would be comfortable with. Unfortunately, that is not going to happen this month or next...
At my previous company, we actually built a spreadsheet component as a Netscape Plugin, as an ActiveX control and as a Java Applet. They had a little bit of success, but none of these technologies ever became ubiquitous in the enterprise for various reasons. I believe Microsoft is finally getting it right with Silverlight and that Silverlight will become the gold standard for browser based Line of Business applications in the Enterprise.
EDIT:
I should have mentioned that the product I alluded to above is Formula One / NET (Netscape Plugin released ~1995), Formula One / ActiveX and Formula One for Java - which is now sold by Actuate as e.Spreadsheet. I left in 2002, but AFAIK they still maintain the Java Applet which is probably the best example of an Excel like UI in the browser (I have no interest in the product any more - in fact we compete to some extent with e.Spreadsheet and intend to have a better answer with a Silverlight control in the future). I did not mention it by name in my original answer because it is a Java product - not a .NET product - but it is a potential answer even for an ASP.NET web site.
Lloyd Cotten correctly comments that Google Docs is an example of a spreadsheet built with HTML / JavaScript. Lloyd says Google Docs "definitely 'feels right' in its similarity to Excel". While I respect Lloyd's opinion, in my experience Google Docs does not 'feel right'. Perhaps this is because I'm a spreadsheet guy. I do know that we talk to potential customers almost every day who are trying to solve the problem of the OP, and they have all looked and cannot find one they are happy with - but of course they would not be calling us if they had so we are dealing with a biased sample and I understand that.
So I just want to clarify that there are in fact plenty of examples of HTML / JavaScript grids and spreadsheets which are usable. It's just that I don't want to have to use them because I expect certain keys to do certain things and a particular level of responsiveness which is just not there today with any of the HTML / JavaScript solutions I have tried (and I look at them regularly because my company could definitely sell such a product if it were feasible to build one that we could be proud of).
How about FarPoint Spread?
I'm in the middle on evaluating FarPoint Spread for ASP.NET, and so far I've been happy with the result.
We ended up using Sigma Grid ... thanks for all the other replies!
Well.. not sure, but I am looking for something similar and I found:
Nitobi
Not sure if it does exactly what you want, although youcan definately move around with cursor keys, and edit inline....
EDIT
Also Essential Objects have a good editor too... seems very like excel...
http://demo.essentialobjects.com/Default.aspx?path=Grid_i1_i20
RealWorld Grid is probably what you are looking for. I'm using it in my projects, and it works perfectly.
Here's their CooglePlex page
I don't think it supports the arrow keys, but it makes multirow editing a breeze.
p.s. seems like you're looking for client-side grids ... this one is server-side. I'll leave the comment there, somebody might find it useful.
I have used the Infragistics grid with success. However, the learning curve is huge (and there's practically no support) and I don't know if there is multi-line editing.
I've used Syncfusion's components and they're quite good, they boast an "Excel-like" editor, though I didn't see multi-line mentioned.
For intranet and IE users Office Web components can be an option. While flying in the face of all things a good web application should be, they let users feel at home in office on the web.
I had great success using the pivot table control combined with MS OLAP a few years ago. User loved it and no wheels needed to be reinvented.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=982B0359-0A86-4FB2-A7EE-5F3A499515DD&displaylang=EN
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc164070.aspx
I think http://codethat.com/grid/ is quite good!
Excel Like GridView allows for multiline editing and navigating using the arrow keys, as well as resizing columns and rows.
http://darkroastjava.wordpress.com/2010/04/28/creating-an-excel-like-grid-for-asp-net/ is an extension of that which also supports pasting multi-cell values from the clipboard.
Unfortunately, both only work in IE so far, but that meets my personal needs at this point of time.
dhtmlxGrid (client-side, JavaScript grid) supports multiline feature (demo), keyboard navigation and comes with server-side connector for ASP.NET. In case, someone is still looking for such a grid. Disclosure: I'm a part of the DHTMLX team.