Chapter 7Forum Messages and UI Tricks
A technical event, like any collaborative project, will turn out better if the communication flows freely. To help facilitate this for our users, we’re going to include a forum where the organizer and volunteers can post and reply to messages. Then, to make it easy for new volunteers to come up to speed on what’s going on, we’ll include a threaded view of all past messages. That’s the goal of this iteration. While we’re at it, we’ll learn more about the interaction between controllers and views, we’ll get a closer look at GSP templates, and we’ll get a look at Ajax, Grails style.
We won’t have to start from scratch, because Grails has already given us the list, create, show, and edit views to work with. ...
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