If you are just looking to make it easier for them to find an option in a large list, I would implement something like https://select2.github.io/ (see the remote data section in the examples if you have too many sales groups to pre-populate the list on page load)
If the user needs to fill out multiple fields tin order to perform a more advanced search then it would depend on the overall user experience you want to deliver - revealing a form in the page or via a modal is definitely a viable ui pattern. On Tuesday, June 2, 2015 at 3:18:19 PM UTC-4, Elton Antunes wrote: > > Hi there, > > I'm new to web development and I've been studying cakephp and I have this > situation where I want to know the best practice. > > Imagine a user creating a new Customer in the application, in the form he > has to choose the customer's sales group, and this table has so many > records, that's using a drop down list isn't a viable option. > > I was thinking in the user press a button, then open a modal window. This > new window would have a grid, with search options (for filtering the data) > and the user would choose one, and go back to the original form, bringing > back the sales group selected by the user. > > What's the name of this technique, and is it a good option? How to do this > in cakephp? > > Best regards > -- Like Us on FaceBook https://www.facebook.com/CakePHP Find us on Twitter http://twitter.com/CakePHP --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
