...and then god created categories. Thus people whose names started with "A" belonged into category of people whose names started with "A". And Programmers everywhere could do something like this:
A B C D E F G H... the users of their programs could click "A" and the pop-up listed only people from the "A" category. And god saw that it was good... :-) > -----Original Message----- > From: David Shelley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 11:59 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list witango-talk > Subject: Witango-Talk: User Interface Question > > > I'm building a Compliance Management System and one of the subsystems > involves assigning tasks to individuals. There's over 400 > users, so it's way > too many for a dropdown. What other methods do the experts > here use for > selecting one of a large number of users? > > In other applications I've used a last name text field and a > select box. An > onKeyUp handler on the last name filters a javascript array > with all the > users and populates the select box. Then clicking on one in > the select box > puts the userID in a hidden field. But 400 users is bigger > than I like to > use in a javascript array. > > In another instance an onChange handler in the last name > field triggers a > database lookup. If there's one match it's selected, more > than one brings up > a little window (or an iFrame) with a dropdown of the > matches, and if none > match a javascript alert is triggered. > > I'm looking for other options to make a user friendly > interface. Given that > it's an intranet application we don't need to support > netscape or old IE > versions so I have more flexibility. > > Thanks. > Dave Shelley > > ______________________________________________________________ > __________ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body > ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body
