Pre-populate fields (for referenced_list)

[TimoSolo]

Is there a way to create an "add" button on a referenced_list that links to the creation page with the targetReferenceField prepopulated with the current id?

[fzaninotto]

Nope, note at the time, but that's a good idea for a PR ;)

[TimoSolo]

might have to dig in the code and add it then ;)

What do you suggest for the process? I was thinking it would be cool to specify a listView object for a referenced_list, then you could specify the list actions, and any filters eg the targetReferenceField would be passed to the creation view of the list table.

What do you think? maybe too ambitious in scope..

[TimoSolo]

The listView idea would also help with another problem i have where I need to specify a url for a referenced_list. For example the api has a user: /users/123 and a list of friends at /users/123/friends/

I got it to work with an ugly hack:

var users = nga.entity('users')
                        .url(function(entity, view, id, element) {
                            window.user_id = id;
                            return 'users/v1/users/' + ( id ? id+"/" : "" )
                        });
var friends = nga.entity('friends')
                        .url(function(entity, view, id, element) {
                            var user_id = window.user_id || "0"
                            return 'users/'+user_id+'/friends/' + ( id ? id+"/" : "" )
                        });

but would prefer a more elegant solution

[fzaninotto]

Use another entity object for your referenced_list?

[TimoSolo]

thats what im doing above ("friends" are also "user" objects), but the url to access them is different, so I had to create a new entity.

[armellarcier]

Maybe these issues should go to StackOverflow? François? (inc. #636)

[TimoSolo]

I have asked on SO - no answers yet :(
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/ng-admin

[fzaninotto]

That's a perfectly valid solution, not a hack ;)