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I'm looking for some advice.  I need some opinions from an end user stand point.

I have a table of data, 4 columns, and 75 rows long.  I need to allow the Admin members (not technically enclined) to modify the contents of the data on the tabular data.  I can go about it pretty much however I like.

Option A
User clicks on the cell to edit which spawns a new window where they can make the changes and then close that pop up winow once the changes are completed.  The problem then becomes the main window is no longer current but the user can immediately update another cell.

Option B
User clicks on a cell and the main window is recyled and the user is presented a form to which to make the updates to the cell.  They click save and the page then goes back to the orignal page (no pop up windows).  Downside is that he user has to wait for the data to be presente again.

Option C
I can use Ajax to perform an edit in place.  It is fancy and cool.  Downside is that it would take a little longer to code and not sure if the page is used enough to warrant investing any more time than what a simple form would afford.

Option D
or should I just follow the KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) and keep this as simple as possible.  The page will not be udpated that often, maybe 5 times a month.

Cheers,
Chip

This message was edited by dlackey on 1-10-08 @ 5:20 PM

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01-10-2008 @ 5:55 PM

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I vote for D Smile

Pablo Varando

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tmbrown

01-10-2008 @ 7:21 PM

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I'm with Pablo on this one go with D. However for future purposes if the need arises for things to be updated more use option B, it's still simple and doesnt confuse the user.

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01-10-2008 @ 7:33 PM

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depends

how's your AJAX skills? if they're weak, i'd go for C and use it as an opportunity to learn some AJAX or experiment with something new like jQuery or one of the other AJAX/JS libraries.

if there's nothing new that you can learn on this, and the app doesn't have a lot of users (which is what it sounds like), then yeah, i'd go with D.

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01-10-2008 @ 7:45 PM

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Lock in B eddie! For $100,000.

(that was from Who Wants to be a Millionaire if no one understood that)

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01-11-2008 @ 9:35 AM