Hi all. I am working on a site that does testing of certain exercises for athletes. Most of the site is pretty straight forward, but I am working on the data entry and running into a few kinks. Most sites will have you enter one "datapost" at a time, and then make you enter the next, and so on. This is time consuming and a pain. I decided to try out cfgrid so that users could enter the data similar to a spreadsheet. This works fairly well.

The question i have is I read a little about AJAX and how it can make requests to the server without reloading, or something of that nature. Does anyone have any resources to read up? Would that be an alternative to cgfrid? Does HMS have AJAX?

Thanks for all your help.

Hello.

Any user can install the AJAX code on their website. Some in the colfusion community, including myself, use CFAjax to make Ajax Requests. It's very easy to setup, and there are excellent examples. If you know how to write CFC's (Coldfusion Components), and have basic knowledge of Javascript, you're ready to go. However, You won't be able to use CFAjax and CFGrid because the CFGrid is flash.

http://www.indiankey.com/cfajax/

If you have any questions about setup or using it, please let me know. I'd be happy to help

Thank you very much for the info. Do you know of a way to use something similar to cfgrid using AJAX?

How would i go about setting it up on my local server and on HMS?

I don't know of anything prebuilt to do what you want. Perhaps you could use FLEX to build what you want. But you probably could do what you want to do with AJAX, but it would not be a quick build.

Maybe someone else can answer?

You may want to check out Adobe's Spry (a framework for AJAX)... I think it will provide some of what you are looking for:

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/

The Spry Framework reminds me of the Scriptaculous effects framework, which is what I use now. I may make a switch if I find the need for some of Sprys Features. Thanks for sharing

Thank you very much for your help and suggestions. I am going to poke around a bit to see what I can come up with.

I looked at both of those sites and realize I have a lot of reading to do to be up to speed on AJAX, but the effects and the functionality are awesome.