Grouper Developers Forum

[Chris Hyzer <>]

Hey,

I think the easiest and most browser friendly way to have a UI widget is to 
have a popup browser window which acts "modal", but in browsers you cant 
really do that in a cross browser way.  Just assume the user will click a 
button, the window will disappear, and put the selected group in the parent 
window, and all good.  The problem is sometimes the user doesn't interact 
with the modal, and goes to another window, then does more stuff, then sees 
the modal and interacts, and the parent window is different.

I saw this article about iframe and dhtml modal windows, and tried the 
examples and they work well:

http://clarkupdike.blogspot.com/2009/03/basic-example-of-jquerys-uidialog.html

Either way people want to present it (new window or some sort of dhtml 
window), I think we can make some good grouper widgets pretty easily.  I also 
think each app that wants to interact with grouper needs to register with the 
grouper UI, and a config file could hold some skin settings, config settings, 
etc...

Fyi
Chris