>From what we can tell, it seems to be a rendering issue. The data is intact when we click in the text field (we can see that in the debugger). It's just that the suggestion list (created with <div>, <ul>, and <li> elements) doesn't show up.
Perhaps a CSS issue? On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 10:20 PM, Mike Tutkowski < mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > My GSoC student has been working on a GUI problem for a while and we'd > like to see if anyone out there who might have a detailed knowledge of > CloudStack's GUI code and JavaScript/CSS in general could help. > > Seif is trying to add a new control to the CS GUI: > > http://loopj.com/jquery-tokeninput/ > > He's first trying to swap out one existing text field for this control: > the Storage Tags text field in the Add Primary Storage dialog. > > Right now this Storage Tags is just a normal text field. You type in one > or more tags (separated by a comma). > > This new control provides suggestions (Seif acquires all storage tags from > the DB via a new API call he wrote) and lets you click on a suggestion to > add it to the control's text field. JIRA has a similar control. > > A nice benefit of this approach is that you don't have to guess at the > name of a storage tag that you want to use if that storage tag is already > in use (you can just select it from the list of suggestions as you type). > > Anyways, Seif has most all of the code written, but is having trouble > getting the suggestions list to actually show up in the CS GUI (it shows up > just fine in a demo program he built). > > His current code in in my GitHub cloudstack repo here: > > > https://github.com/mike-tutkowski/cloudstack/commit/c0e58040663e641dccac6c3586ddd07ff4382b9e > > I'm not seeing any obvious problem with his code, but I'm way more > experienced in Java than in JavaScript. > > Thanks! > > -- > *Mike Tutkowski* > *Senior CloudStack Developer, SolidFire Inc.* > e: mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com > o: 303.746.7302 > Advancing the way the world uses the cloud > <http://solidfire.com/solution/overview/?video=play>*™* > -- *Mike Tutkowski* *Senior CloudStack Developer, SolidFire Inc.* e: mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com o: 303.746.7302 Advancing the way the world uses the cloud <http://solidfire.com/solution/overview/?video=play>*™*
