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#7517 closed enhancement (notabug)
Opened June 28, 2011 07:29PM UTC
Closed June 28, 2011 08:09PM UTC
Editable Select List
| Reported by: | ylluminate | Owned by: | ylluminate | 
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| Priority: | minor | Milestone: | 1.9.0 | 
| Component: | ui.core | Version: | 1.8.14 | 
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Blocked by: | Blocking: | 
Description
While happy to see the core integration of autocomplete, I believe that an equally important option is to facilitate an editable select list. An editable select list facilitates some key database functionality for fields that change and/or are used frequently, but don't merit an entire table to themselves. The idea is to take a column of attributes from a table and populate the select with this data whilst simultaneously allowing the user to type a new entry, auto completing the text while typing if matching chars are found from a string in the list.
This functionality was provided to Dreamweaver developers years ago (around 2001) and was a very useful feature for demanding forms and data entry applications.
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Changed June 28, 2011 07:34PM UTC by comment:1
| owner: | → ylluminate | 
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| status: | new → pending | 
Changed June 28, 2011 08:06PM UTC by comment:2
| status: | pending → new | 
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I found an example! http://coffeescripter.com/code/editable-select/
Changed June 28, 2011 08:09PM UTC by comment:3
| resolution: | → invalid | 
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| status: | new → closed | 
This is already in development, see http://wiki.jqueryui.com/w/page/12138056/Selectmenu
I'm not really sure whether you're asking for a feature or a widget. If it's a feature, please provide a more descriptive explanation (a live example would go a long way too). If it's a new plugin, this is not the place for such a request; you can start a discussion the the forums or planning wiki.