Make fields in-place editable

[gvwilson]

We're currently using forms for almost everything, which is very old-fashioned - it would really (really) help if events, sites, persons, etc., could be edited in-place without form submission. This is pretty much at the top of Amy-the-person's wishlist.

[pbanaszkiewicz]

This is pretty big. @amyrbrown how would this feature help you with your work?

[amyrhoda]

The "notes" field is the one I edit most often -- it would be awesome if I could just click in it and edit it (and only it) instead of clicking the "edit" button, which makes everything editable and is pretty slow.

Alternately maybe just a button to edit the notes field alone -- kind of like you can edit the title of a Github issue, or just a comment, without editing the whole thing?

(I wouldn't say this is at the top of my list, but it would be really really nice. :) )

[wking]

On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 09:00:41AM -0700, Piotr Banaszkiewicz wrote:

This is pretty big.

The little “Django API + Angular frontend” bird is singing in my head
;).

[pbanaszkiewicz]

The "notes" field is the one I edit most often -- it would be awesome if I could just click in it and edit it (and only it) instead of clicking the "edit" button, which makes everything editable and is pretty slow.

If it's the edit OBJECT webpage loading slowly, then we have a solution in v0.3; I don't think it's running on the production yet, though.

Alternately maybe just a button to edit the notes field alone -- kind of like you can edit the title of a Github issue, or just a comment, without editing the whole thing?

That's definitely an easy way to solve this issue, and I like it.

The little “Django API + Angular frontend” bird is singing in my head ;).

That's the whole release on its own, and I'd like to not go there if we can :-) but yeah, it may be inevitable at some point. (Not saying it's a bad idea, though! It's just a big thing.)

[aditnryn]

Can we use a wysiwyg editor on the notes field. django-wysiwyg is stated to work with django-crispy-forms. It is worth a try or going the AngularJS way is the better option in the long run.

The "notes" field is the one I edit most often -- it would be awesome if I could just click in it and edit it (and only it) instead of clicking the "edit" button, which makes everything editable and is pretty slow.

PJAX (like on github.com) can make webpage rendering faster. Haven't tried that yet.

[pbanaszkiewicz]

@narayanaditya95 annotating with dates is more important than wysiwyg.

[gvwilson]

Helpful, but not essential.