Update multiple objects in joined table from the edit template

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Hi all.

I’m trying to put together an assessment style app where a user can create a questionnaire based on a selection of questions.

On the ‘assessment’ page, I can list out all the questions the user has selected for the questionnaire. What I would like to do is on the ‘edit’ template for the questionnaire, have a table of questions with an ‘answer’ textbox on the right.

Answers are currently stored in a joined table. I can see variables stored corerctly using the debugger but I am not sure how to proceed from here. In the current example, I have an assessment with 3 questions selected out of 100. I can see the array with the 3 questions. I have injected 1 answer for one of those questions as a quick test and I can see the variable just fine in the debugger.

assessment (array)

id 1
customer_id 1
name Assessment 1
description First test assessment.
created (array)
modified (array)
answers (array)
    0 (Cake\ORM\Entity)
        id 1
        question_id 4
        answer pretend answer text
        assessment_id 1
questions (array)
    0 (App\Model\Entity\Question)
    1 (App\Model\Entity\Question)
    2 (App\Model\Entity\Question)

Can anyone point a newbie in the right direction? I should add that I am mostly baked right out with very few customisations.

Thanks all.

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If you have an association configured for the answers property you would be able to save that data with save and the associated option.