On 2009-09-29, at 3:07 PM, Mark Wardle wrote:
Hi all.
I'm successfully using ajaxautocomplete but that results in a string.
Fine for subsequent searching. Is there a unified component that will
handle setting a to one relationship with a drop down populated by
autocomplete?
Otherwise I'll see whether I can roll my own!
We have one, unfortunately it's implementation is pretty specific for
the project it's used in and not really suitable for sharing:
1. It is D2W and tuned for our look.
2. It makes assumptions about the model (yes, I know, that is bad).
The issue with using a autocomplete to do a lookup for a to-one
relationship is that, as you mention, the autocomplete returns a
string. You need to then guarantee that the attribute you are
qualifying the found EO against is unique. For some EOs this is a non
issue (qualifying countryName in the array of Country EOs). For EOs
where this is not the case (productName in the array of Product EOs)
we achieve this by appending a guaranteed unique value (i.e:
productCode) to the the primary search attribute.
;david
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