dragging and dropping

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This is, to me anyway, an unusual request from the users. They would like to
be able to take a record from a continuous form by 'grabbing it' and moving
it up or down the list. Apparently, someone saw what Netflix (Blockbuster
has something similar) does on its que page and they now would like to
corporate that into the app.

So, I am wondering if anyone has ever done something like that or know of a
sample to view?

Thanks.

.... John
 
JohnE said:
This is, to me anyway, an unusual request from the users. They would
like to be able to take a record from a continuous form by 'grabbing
it' and moving it up or down the list. Apparently, someone saw what
Netflix (Blockbuster has something similar) does on its que page and
they now would like to corporate that into the app.

So, I am wondering if anyone has ever done something like that or
know of a sample to view?
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I've done it between fields using just a few lines of code.
Doing it within a table might be easier but there would be some overhead and
I suspect doing it in a visual manner would be almost impossible. Changing
the mouse pointer might help.
You would need the records sorted on some numerical sequential field .
Clicking on the row would just record the current row ID.
When you dropped it you would change the numerical value to the value of the
new location, then renumber everything from that point on...


This was off the top of my head and I realized, at the ellipse, this would
work if you moved it up, but if you moved it down another bigger set of
problems arise.
It could be done but would be awkward.
I would suggest the answer be the 14 th and 15th letters of the alphabet.
 
Mike, thanks for the input. It was about what I was thinking as well. The
laughter after they talked about it probably gave it away that it was
something very difficult, if not impossible, that needs to be re-evaluated as
to what they really need.

.... John
 
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