How do I add code behind an edit button?

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Hello,

I am writing an application in Classic asp (I'm experienced in SQL Server databases, but fairly new to asp). I'm working in an iSAMS framework, a commercial product which is the front-end for managing school data (pupils, reports, etc)

My code is VBScript, and in it's simplest form, all it does is connect to a SQL Server database, loop through a table containing the fields StudentID and StudentReport (a text field showing a student report), and write to an HTML table. So, I end up with a simple display of one report per student. All good.

My question is : I am trying to find a way to be able to edit the report (this is something a teacher might have to do). I have added an edit button using Javascript, and I am looking for code to put behind it, so that the report becomes editable when the button is clicked.

I don't expect the answer to be a few lines of code - I'm not even sure if I'm approaching this in the right way. Any advice (code/web site/book) would be appreciated!

Thanks

Jim

What I have tried:

Did a fair bit of Googling for this, and I also came across this link on this site, but I am not sure if this is the best method :

https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/17318/Add-Edit-and-Delete-in-DataGridView-with-Paging

Posted 26-Mar-17 23:54pm

Jim246

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F-ES Sitecore 27-Mar-17 7:03am

You'll struggle to find samples on Classic ASP these days, people haven't used it for over a decade. The link you posted is of no good as it's asp.net.

If you want to do this in javascript then I'd have a textbox for each row hidden so something like

<span data-studentid="<%=StudentID%>"><%=StudentReport%></span>
<input type="text" data-studentid="<%=StudentID%>" value="<%=StudentReport%>" style="display:none;">

Once you have the ID of the student you are editing use jQuery to make the span with the equivalent data-studentid hidden and the input with the equivalent data-studentid visible. Wrap it in a form and when the form is submitted you can go through the text boxes and save their values.

Jim246 27-Mar-17 13:37pm

Thank you. I'll investigate this option.

Jim

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