I've spent the last 2.5 days digging into modal dialogs in Bootstrap.  

My notes are here. 

Demo app is here. (Although my product app has advanced far beyond what it can do.) 

And a simple jQuery demo app. 

Final problem is related to sychronizing the call that sets the value the dialog is meant to edit and reloading the page to reflect the change. 

I know I should probably just update the part that changed, but this is just the first dialog I'm doing. Just enough to learn the issues before I consider how I want to hook it into the worldoutline macro language.  

It's been quite interesting learning the Javascript environment, and it gets more interesting the deeper I get into it.