Forums

Express: Form for editing entries on the frontend?

Permalink
While i'm able to create a form to input entries for an entity on the frontend, i wonder how i would create a form for editing existing entries on the frontend?

Thank you,
Michael
okapi
 
mrjcgoodwin replied on at Permalink Reply
mrjcgoodwin
I think you probably have to do this pragmatically, see docs here:https://documentation.concrete5.org/developers/express/creating-read...
okapi replied on at Permalink Reply
okapi
Would be really nice, if this could be done pragmatically, unfortunately i'm sure i would have to do this programmatically ;) but i don't have the required programming skills.

I will keep on editing entries on the dashboard, hoping that one day it will be finally possible to define the number of items to show on the express entries list or disable the pagination completely in order to have all items displayed.

Currently it's a pain to edit a greater number of entries.
mrjcgoodwin replied on at Permalink Reply
mrjcgoodwin
Hi Okapi, did you ever figure a solution to this? I'm just starting a new project since replying to you last time and now need to do the same thing!
jfhencken replied on at Permalink Reply
jfhencken
okapi,
Did you every figure out how to use an Express form to load an existing data object entry in order to change values and then save (update) the form?
Just like the Dashboard does when this call is made:
.../index.php/dashboard/express/entries/edit_entry/205 (where 205 is an example of the ID of the Express entry you want to update)
I would like to know how to recreate the Dashboard edit entry page on any webpage. Right now I am just passing the entry ID like this:
$vcIDLink = '<a target="_blank" href="'.$domain.'/index.php/dashboard/express/entries/view_entry/'.strval($vcID).'">'.strval($vcID).'</a>';
echo '$vcIDLink';