I'm looking for alternative ways of solving a problem. We're using ElFinder for browsing files, and we want to allow the user to change the access rights to a file element through the right-click context menu ("Change permissions"). The solution I have come up with so far is to load a server side ASP.NET usercontrol in a jQuery modal dialog window. This user control will contain the logic needed to add / remove user access to the selected element.
The jQuery Dialog script looks like this (slightly changed for readability), where DisplayItemAccessConfig() is the method that's called from the context menu:
<!-- access control script -->
<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
function DisplayItemAccessConfig() {
$.getJSON('AccessRights.ashx', function (data) {
var itemName = data["itemName"];
/* set new title (JUST FOR TESTING) */
$(dialog).dialog('option', 'title', itemName);
/* open modal dialog --> */
$(dialog).dialog('open');
});
}
$(function () {
$("#dialog").dialog({
autoOpen: false,
modal: true,
buttons: {
"Ok": function () { $(this).dialog("close"); },
"Cancel": function () { $(this).dialog("close"); }
},
open: function (type, data) {
$(this).parent().appendTo("form");
}
});
});
</script>
Challenge 1: find a way to reload the user control each time the jQuery popup is displayed - this is to retrieve the current access settings for the selected element. Now it loads when the page is first loaded, since it's just a div element containing an update panel with a placeholder for my usercontrol and visibility set to none. Anyone have any tips here?
Challenge 2: While I am trying to figure that one out I thought it could be worth while asking for other opinions. Is there a better way of solving this? Should I use a pure jQuery with HTML and call server side .ashx methods to retrieve data, instead of an ASP.NET usercontrol?
