Hierarchical Data Entry

[tgochenour]

I don't see any examples with 1-many parent/child data entry schemes, like Order/Line Item.

I do see examples showing the Categories hierarchy and the Employees hierarchy driving the TreeGrid.

I'm looking for support in DynamicForms. Because I'm lazy, I'm looking for automatic support driven from the DataSource definition, where if a field is a foreign key to another DataSource, it automatically either drops in a ComboBox (for 1-1 linkage) or a Grid (for 1-Many linkage).

My DataSource is an XML service, rather than SQL, so instead of tables, I have nested elements. I'd like the form to submit the XML with the nested elements in one transaction.

[zsinnema]

Me too

I think this is added value to the product.

Also one question:
how to create 2 forms which are actually linked to each other by a foreign key.

For example:
1 form with customers
and
1 form with customer_orders (with a detail to order items)

I want to have it seperated because customers also can link to addresses, invoices etc.

What I need is a handy and quick (and RAD based) solution.

Anyone?

[Isomorphic]

You should be able to use an approach to the one described here:

http://forums.smartclient.com/showthread.php?t=744

The only thing that changes is the databound component (form instead of tree).