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Jeroen Vannevel

12:00 AM

Ah, so "inline a blank book record is added to the list" refers to the physical appearance

RubberDuck

~/Books/Create is what I'm trying to avoid. Yes.

Even that I'm okay with if I can remain on the same view though.

Jeroen Vannevel

I think you'll have to use JavaScript for this, since this is all client-based stuff

RubberDuck

Should I be doing this client side some

Jeroen Vannevel

Have a click on the "Add book" button inject some HTML in your page through JavaScript

RubberDuck

Yup. Okay. I was thinking about it wrong.

Jeroen Vannevel

12:04 AM

When they then add the information, you save it client-side in JS (in-memory or even browser-based storage)

and when they press the "Update library" button, you call your controller from Javascript

RubberDuck

So then when it gets posted back, the new entries are there to be saved back.

Jeroen Vannevel

you can get all the info from your form and add the new books

although I'm less certain about this (I'm not a clientside dev), I think that's about the workflow

RubberDuck

Yeah. Okay. Guess I've gotta dust off those js skills. Thanks Jeroen.

Jeroen Vannevel

when it arrives back at your server you will have your library with the updated books

no problem

RubberDuck

For anyone stumbling on this in the future. Relevant.

stackoverflow.com/questions/16955101/how-to-add-items-to-mvc-model-in-javascript

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