Hi,

I am new to Silverstripe (which is amazing btw) so sorry if this has an obvious answer

Is there a way to override the Save event in the admin CMS?

What I am trying to do is save multiple records to the database at the same time.

So I have 2 date fields, StartDate & EndDate (+ some other fields)

What I want to do is loop through the dates and add/edit entries depending on the date range. For example if I choose:

2009-03-27 - 2009-03-31

It would save 5 records to the database.

I can write the function to do this no problem, but how do I get it to be called when I click the 'Save' button?

Hope this makes sense.

Cheers

Mike

Hi Ben,

Thanks for the tip, I will check them out.

I actually found an interesting function which adds a custom submit button to the CMS...

   function getCMSActions() {
      return new FormAction(
         'bulkUpdate',
         'Bulk Update'
      );
   }

But I can't quite work out how/where I need to put the bulkUpdate function.

Any ideas?

Cheers

Mike

Hi Bn,

Thanks again for your reply

I dug a bit more and have decided to use the onBeforeSave method on the normal save button. So when a user clicks that I have a function which executes.

I will look at the FormAction some more later as it looks like maybe a better way to do it.

Cheers

Mike