I will take a look. If I recall from Friday's investigations, the XHR request returns an empty list in the "autosuggest" result set. Also, the MySQL query looks for "='Ellis'" if you have "Ellis" in the Author field, "LIKE 'Elli%'" if you have "Elli%" in the Author field. I'm not sure if that's what we want...
on 06/17/2011 09:52 PM Joe Blaylock wrote : > On 06/17/2011 09:20 AM, Tibor Simko wrote: >> On Thu, 16 Jun 2011, Joe Blaylock wrote: >>> In recent versions, the autocomplete-by-hotkey infrastructure has >>> rotted a bit I'm afraid, and I'm not sure if it *can* work. >> I've had a quick look and the record editor auto-completion facility got >> broken two months ago by either b57ee65 or 821ce77 which came as part >> <http://invenio-software.org/ticket/111>. >> >> (76f8c51=good, 821ce77=untested, b57ee65=untested, dbbc8d6=bad) >> >> * dbbc8d6 Merge branch 'marko/kbs-with-placemark', Tibor Simko >> |\ >> | * b57ee65 BibKnowledge: dynamic KBs for BibEdit use dynkb, Joe Blaylock >> | * 821ce77 BibKnowledge: various dynamic kb updates, Marko Niinimaki >> |/ >> * 76f8c51 WebSearch: second order operators in SPIRES syntax, Valkyrie Savage > Ok, that's good. Thanks for narrowing it down Tibor. > > Since it's my fault it's broken, I'll take time to diagnose and figure > out what I did, and try to repair the damage in BibEdit. But I won't be > able to get to it until at least next Wednesday. In the meantime, > Christopher, if you need to work on this the methods I mentioned in my > last email are the right place to look. The most likely source of the > fault is that the return type of one of the bibknowledge.* calls changed > (they were inconsistent with their documentation and database schemata, > so I corrected them) and it probably just needs a couple of variable > assignments swapped. At least, if I recall correctly. > > Since this is in the Javascript, you can step through with debugger in > Firebug to watch it work once on 76f8c51 and then again on dbbc8d6 and I > would imagine the fault will jump right out at you. Or wait a while and > I'll get back to it when I can. > > I'm afraid I still can't give advice on the actual setup of the > autocomplete feature in invenio-local.conf; I've never done it before. > > Joe > >
