I'm trying to write a UI for a reports view that has (lets say) the following reports:
1. Company overview 2. Person detail 3. Projects overview
The idea is that you choose which one of those reports you want using a SELECT box. When you've chosen the report you want the options (if there are any) for that report are displayed. So let's say we have the following options:
1. Company overview This just displays the report which lets say is a partial that we put in a span. Easy.
2. Person detail For this we want a new SELECT to appear with all the possible projects in (lets say), then when that is selected we display the result in a span.
3. Projects overview Here we want a SELECT box and a checkbox they do ... something (what they do is irrelevant). On changing them though we update the div with the displayed report using those options.
I already have a solution for this that is really big and unwieldy and ... wrong... It uses AJAX because I came across it and thought it was shiny. This has the problem though that if you use a link on the report and then go back you only get the first select box appearing. Basically back button doesn't quite work badness. So an AJAXy solution would be nice, but I really want the back button to work.
The second issue is that my current solution has reams and reams of code. About 30 lines per potential report which is clearly not ruby-like.
So I'm wondering if anyone can tell me where to RTFM or point out
anything I should look at or consider, or not consider 
Any help
appreciated
-Rob
