Dropdown to update another dropdown and not update database

nicontrols

Is it possible to have a dropdown that updates the contents of another dropdown without committing any changes to the database?

The contents of the 2nd dropdown need to be grabbed from the database.

I can sort of get editor.dependant() working but the first dropdown wants to update the database, which I don't want,

I hope that makes sense.

colin

Hi @nicontrols ,

Would making it readonly work - that way Editor wouldn't expect to write it back?

Cheers,

Colin

nicontrols

To get this to work, I just ended up removing the node from the JSON being submitted to the server.

In this example, I didn't want the salstkitem table to update, but I still wanted the dropdown functionality. It's a pretty weird situation that not many will encounter I imagine:

            editor.on( 'preSubmit', function ( e, data, action ) {
                
                let row = editor.ids();
                delete data.data[row]['salstkitem'];

            } );

allan

Yes! As of Editor 1.8.0 there is the fields.submit option which can be used to prevent the data being submitted to the server for a field.

Allan