In the case where they type a name and do not select from the list  
then the text box is populated but no id is populated. Is there a  
good way to insure a selection is made?

Deco
On May 3, 2007, at 4:59 AM, Laurent wrote:

>
> thanks xavier..it's exactly what i need
>
> l
>
> On 3 mai, 08:47, Xavier Noria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On May 2, 2007, at 10:15 PM, Laurent wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> I would like to be able to do/reuse the autocompleter for the
>>> following thing.
>>
>>> The field opened for autocompletion in my HTML form, will not  
>>> based in
>>> my ActiveRecord (RoR), but declared as a new attribute like this:
>>
>>> attr_accessor :name_search
>>
>>> In this model class, i have an id (let's say user_id that is 'based'
>>> i.e when i persist into in database, i save this user_id but not the
>>> name_search) mapped to the correspomding column from the table.
>>
>>> So with the Autocompleter (that i should extend i think), i would  
>>> like
>>> to  :
>>> Open the search on the 'name_search' field, choose name in the  
>>> list (i
>>> should find a means to have the user_id hidden in a div at each  
>>> line),
>>> then :
>>> - set this name in the 'name_search' field
>>> - set the corresponding user_id in an hidden field.
>>> When clicking OK, i send the user_id information for saving...
>>
>> That's provided by model_auto_completer:
>>
>>    http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/model_auto_completer
>>
>> -- fxn
>
>
> >


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