http://demos.telerik.com/kendo-ui/grid/editing
http://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-ajax/grid/examples/data-editing/batch-editing/defaultcs.aspx
https://demos.devexpress.com/MVCxGridViewDemos/Editing/BatchEditing
( and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17033025/kendo-grid-batch-editing-making-a-single-call-to-save)
A couple of years ago I built a cardinality check. So if an order can only exist with at least one orderline you cannot add that order without adding at least one orderline. This adds a complication: remove the last orderline and you'll have to ask the user to confirm he wants to remove the order header too. Moreover the batch editing screen is a bit more complicated to use (see above links). Do you see value for batch editing and / or a check on a cardinality? In which cases?
Regards, Stefan.
For batch editing on itself the value is obvious (allow a user to update much quicker than would be possible using single row updates):
www.orderwise.co.uk/.../batch-edit-purchase-order-lines
www.orderwise.co.uk/.../batch-edit-po-line-costs-quantities
Nobody? Surprises me.
Ok, thought it out myself despite the silence. Just talking to myself, never mind. I was rethinking the reasons why I chose to make batchediting possible in a backend framework I wrote a couple of years ago. Had it all in mind before, but trying to make it clear again with some examples. See for yourself how nice batchediting (so not saving record by
record but committing or cancelling a set of cud actions) can work here:
demos.telerik.com/.../defaultcs.aspx.
Of course others found businessneeds for batchediting, being able to do maintenance quicker is one of them:
www.orderwise.co.uk/.../batch-edit-purchase-order-lines.
Watch the movie in the next link to see an example of a simple data-entry form using batch editing (notice all the nice tricks to make quick entry possible in this ui!):
www.eurekaaddons.co.uk/.../web-so-for-sage-200
A nice extra could be that you can validate cardinalities. Is at least one orderline record and one delivery address required besides the orderheader? You have the create of all these records in one transaction.
Sorry, I have no answer for your question. Thank you for sharing your thoughts with the rest of the community.
It is meant more as the opening of a discussion, an exchange of ideas, than as a question. But I can find inspiration elsewhere, never mind.