editing fields of some page inside another page page

[valan]

Client asks me to help with the following:

- currently their people work in lister, opening/editing/saving "order" pages

- these "order" pages have Page field "user" that stores existing PW user (someone who made this order)

- client often needs to edit/save these PW user fields

- to do that - have to open another lister, filter user, select => edit/save

- it is inconvenient, eats time, etc.

So, is there any way to:

- either "drop down" to user Page directly from "order" Page

OR even better

- edit/save some user fields directly inside "order" page?

[Macrura]

the need you are describing was the primary motivating force behind this module:

http://modules.processwire.com/modules/admin-page-field-edit-links

i use it in a scenario much like what you describe (couldn't do without it!)

[valan]

@Macrura: thanks! Great module, but it has critical limitations. E.g. I can't use it in production due to "When using PageListSelect, PageListSelectMultiple, and PageAutoComplete, if there is more than one page field on a given edit page and at least one of them has the edit link feature enabled, all of the Page fields using those inputs will show the edit links.".

Do you know/have any workaround for this limitation (other than not to use other Page fields)))?

[Macrura]

i think one workaround would be to use admin custom files (what this module grew out of), which could provide you with the ability to define your jQuery selectors manually...

not totally sure - i would need to look again to see if there is some descendant selector you could use to isolate only fields you want....

or maybe use the module, but then admin custom files with custom jQuery to remove/disable it where it is messing up things?