Hi all, I am new to rails, and for that matter programming for the web. Scenario: In a Purchase Order screen, I am trying to let a user (Fred) select a customer(General Hospital-MA) and some products. Typically, it can be done using a dropdown list to select from the customers (and products).
Our case: We have hundreds of customers, and thousands of products, so the dropdownlist is just not suitable. What is was: In the olden days(I guess I belong there?), there would be a popup that shows CustomerCode and CustomerName and there would be 2 text fields above for the user to put in a few characters (with wildcard). Upon typing "hosp" (or "%hosp%" or "*hosp*") and pressing "find", the selection list would filter the data and show only those filtered records. User then chooses 1 from the much shorter list and it returns to the previous window, populating the other fields. Question: How do I do the equivalent of this in Rails? It doesn't have to be a popup or have a text field for filtering data or any of the traditional UI practices. It just has to give the user an easy way to select 1 from 1,000 records very quickly. Thanks. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
