We can't use autocompletion in lookups with a dependent field
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Key: OFBIZ-3932
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-3932
Project: OFBiz
Issue Type: Improvement
Affects Versions: SVN trunk
Reporter: Jacques Le Roux
Assignee: Jacques Le Roux
We can't use autocompletion in lookups with a dependent field. For instance a
Name for the lookups field and an hidden field for the Id (or vice versa which
makes less sense, if any). This is not a problem OOTB, but in the Example
component where such a sctructure is used (2d lookup)
I tried a clumsy solution at r993508, but David had to revert it because it was
breaking all current lookups OOTB.
This solution was based on a couple of names for the fields. I suggested a
slightly better solution by using fields positions instead of names. It's less
intrusive, especially if we put some tests, but still unsure.
Of course the best method would be to use the description-field-name. But it
would need to change the current lookup structure. Because the autocomplete
feature is Ajax based and either using Prototype/Scriptaculous or jQuery we
don't have the possibility to change the value of the hidden dependent field
([more in this thread|http://markmail.org/message/7adznlrdmdmwx2tr].
Note: I had a look at [extraParams in jQuery which handles Dependencies between
fields|http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins/autocomplete#Dependencies_between_fields].
It's great but what we need is other way around. Here you define how the load
is done on the autcompleted field and we want to set a related (ID) value on an
hidden field after the user has selected the value (Name) in the autcompleted
field.
At least it is what I found so far...
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