Folks: I've got a somewhat off-topic question, but it does pertain to Flex and HTML sites. I've trying to learn the best method for looking up a customer record for a form page. We've all seen this done a number of different ways, but our particular challenge is that our clients are banks and you won't believe how many banks have the same name - not to mention that we have dozens of entries in the database of branches of the same bank. We need a method where the user can look for a customer and choose that customer for use in the form, or if the customer isn't found - add the customer on the fly.
In Flex there it seems that there might be several workable solutions, one of which would be: a panel could be used to filter choices by allowing the user to type the name and search or filter in some way and then drag & drop the desired customer record onto the form. If the record isn't found you simply add it though another panel or dialog. Does anyone have any other methods they could suggest? I have a need to accomplishing this on an html page as well and cannot think of an elegent solution that doesn't take the user off-page. A popup (this is only for internal users) could work. I'm at a loss for an elegent way to accomplish this via html. Ideas? Thanks, Scott
