Let me start of by saying that I am inexperienced with JavaScript.
Here is what I want to do. When the user clicks "Show Details" on a row of data, they get a pop-up (modal?) window that has some data generated from another action within the MVC application. Where can I find an example of implementing something like this?
Also, when a user clicks "Approve" on either this pop-up or on the original data row another pop-up will display with a form a person needs to fill out.
Any direction will be greatly appreciated.
First of all, you will need a DIV somewhere on your page - let say give it an id "PopUpPanel". Now create a "ready" event for jQuery to initialize the pop-up/modal dialog:
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function () {
$("#PopUpPanel").dialog({
modal: true,
autoOpen: false,
height: 'auto',
width: 'auto',
buttons: {
"Close": function () {
$(this).dialog("close");
}
}
});
});
</script>
Assuming the row has a link "Show Detail" - Create a "handler" for "Show Detail" click:
<script type="text/javascript">
function showDetail(id) {
$.get('MyController/MyAction/' + id, function(data) {
$('#PopUpPanel').html(data);
$('#PopUpPanel').dialog('open');
});
}
</script>
Those should get you to the point where your detail page is showing up in a pop-up/dialog window. To pop-up the other form in additional to the detail dialog or to replace the detail dialog, it should be pretty similar.