Looks like you're on the right track to me. That's how I would do it.
On Feb 22, 11:59 am, "Priest, James (NIH/NIEHS) [C]"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm using Jorn's Autocomplete plugin and am successfully using it to
> return a list of users along with a user_ID. What I'd like to do now is
> when the user selects a person from the autocomplete list - via Ajax
> take that user_ID, populate a table in my database and return another
> value .
>
> Right now I have:
>
> $("#personIDdisplay").result(function(event, data, formatted) {
> if (data)
> $('#personID').val(data[1]);
>
> });
>
> This populates a hidden field (personID) with the value returned via
> autocomplete.
>
> What I'd like to do is instead that that value (data[1]) and use it to
> make another Ajax call to run a query and then return another value -
> but now sure exactly how to do that? :)
>
> Is it just a matter of sticking in a ajax call and doing something like
> this??
>
> (psuedo code)
>
> $("#personIDdisplay").result(function(event, data, formatted) {
> if (data)
> $.ajax({
> url: "dosomething.cfm",
> data: "id = .val(data[1]) ",
> success: function (data) {
> $('#personID').val(data);
> }
> });
>
> I'm off to tinker but any feedback would be appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
> Jim
