Re: Best UI for letting users select an item from a large selection of records?

Stodge wrote: > Thanks. I have the DataTables plugin working so I can filter my > records. Now I just need to work out how to select specific ones from > the table and work with them. > Well, that depends a bit on what you want. if you, say, used javascript to directly populate a field in a

Re: Best UI for letting users select an item from a large selection of records?

After much struggling on this same topic, I found that autocomplete was by far better than a dropdown or a set of chained dropdowns. I looked at a variety of jquery autocomplete packages, and eventually settled on this one, which has worked very well for me:

Re: Best UI for letting users select an item from a large selection of records?

Thanks. I have the DataTables plugin working so I can filter my records. Now I just need to work out how to select specific ones from the table and work with them. On Nov 26, 9:31 am, David De La Harpe Golden wrote: > Stodge wrote: > > Offering the user a drop >

Re: Best UI for letting users select an item from a large selection of records?

Stodge wrote: > Offering the user a drop > down combo box of requirements to choose from isn't the best option. Rant: combo box /means/ a text entry widget plus dropdown menu "combo". For some reason web developers in particular seem prone to using it to mean a dropdown alone (html forms sadly

Re: Best UI for letting users select an item from a large selection of records?

Thanks. No, I'm not talking about the admin interface - sorry I should have made that clear. I'm talking about the front end UI. On Nov 26, 9:11 am, Michel Thadeu Sabchuk wrote: > Hi, > > > I have a Ticket model that has a Requirement foreign key. The problem > > is, there

Re: Best UI for letting users select an item from a large selection of records?

Hi, > I have a Ticket model that has a Requirement foreign key. The problem > is, there could be hundreds of requirements. Offering the user a drop > down combo box of requirements to choose from isn't the best option. > So how would you let the user select one record from a large > selection?

Best UI for letting users select an item from a large selection of records?

I have a Ticket model that has a Requirement foreign key. The problem is, there could be hundreds of requirements. Offering the user a drop down combo box of requirements to choose from isn't the best option. So how would you let the user select one record from a large selection? What UI widget(s)