Scott,
A combination of dynamic text
filtering along with the editor found in the Contact Manager example may bea
good place to start.
HTH,
Allen
Below is a demonstration of a UI component that is
capable of displaying a large data-set of discrete values, which can then be
quickly reduced as the user begins to type the value they are searching for.
This is a desktop metaphor that many will be familiar with - Microsoft calls it
"intellisense" completion in some of its products.
Macromedia Flex applications combine the rich
interactive experience of the desktop with the reach of the web. The best way to
understand Flex applications is to experience them yourself.
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Contact Manager (this was down when I looked at it today, but itcomes
with the samples)
From: scott_oppliger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 29 January 2005 22:14
To: [email protected]
Subject: [flexcoders] UI Question
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
