Hey! Did you ever find a solution to this problem? I found this https://github.com/trevoreyre/autocomplete/tree/master/packages/autocomplete-js and it works well : I fill it with > 26,000 choices and it handles it better that anything else I have found.
On Sunday, June 5, 2022 at 4:58:07 AM UTC-5 Phil Parkin wrote: > Thanks for the responses. > *rgam* - I appreciate what you are saying. I think it is roughly what I > am doing now, but it is a bit clumsy in that the user (of a financial > application) will typically have a list of regular customers to select > from, and also may have other customers that are one-off, or infrequent > which they will not want to clutter their options list with but still need > to record against a transaction. > *Ryan *- thanks, the datalist looks like it might be right option. I will > look at custom widgets. > > All the best - Phil > On Wednesday, 1 June 2022 at 09:13:11 UTC+1 [email protected] > wrote: > >> Hi >> >> If any arbitrary text is allowable, then at the model level I'd just use >> a CharField. I wouldn't add a choices= argument to the field unless is the >> value is strictly constrained to those choice as other test would then fail >> validation. >> >> At the Form level, I'm not sure. I'd probably work just mirror what the >> frontend needed. >> >> Does that help ? >> >> On Tue, 2022-05-31 at 09:52 -0700, Phil Parkin wrote: >> >> Hi all >> >> I am converting a desktop application to Django web application. The >> desktop app uses comboboxes (editable dropdown/select). Is their any >> elegant way of applying the same functionality in Django? Stack Overflow >> etc. all seem to be about dropdown select lists only. >> >> I can see ways of doing this with a Choicefield plus a separate >> Charfield, but is there a better way? >> >> Thanks -Phil >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Django users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/1b7836ae-e52e-4e35-aefc-739ce6f586d0n%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/1b7836ae-e52e-4e35-aefc-739ce6f586d0n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/268ca0a4-8d95-4560-9e93-eba6a77ce66an%40googlegroups.com.
