I have a page which manage student's attendance. By the default the status of the attendance is pending. Beside each student name is an tick and cross. I want the attendance attribute of the student to change to attended and not attended when the user click the tick and cross respectively.
So far I have only been able to update the student's attendance the database by having the user fill up a new form and sending it the server function. I would like to skip this process so their is hassle for the user.
You can create two links (one for tick and another for cross) to a screen action with two input parameters, studentId and AttendanceStatusId. This screen action should update the Student record in the database. So, when the user clicks tick or cross, you update that record. After the update, you should use an Ajax Refresh widget to reflect the changes on your data grid.