You could have the autocomplete opperate on a dummy_seat input, and have the js fill in the correct user id in a hidden 'seat' field on blur.
Maybe even nicer, a selectbox containing all users, and an input that pops up on focus to filter. That way the form degrades nicely when js is turned off. Makes a big selectbox though... just my 2p On Jun 26, 8:40 pm, Greg Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've got a model that represents a boat of rowers which has eight > seats (order is important). The easiest way to handle this was a model > with eight foreign keys: > > class Boat(models.Model): > seat_1 = models.ForeignKey(User) > [...] > seat_8 = models.ForeignKey(User) > > Which is fine and great, but now in the user-space boat editing page, > we have to go through a large list of usernames for each seat to find > the person we're looking for. The site refers to everyone by their > full names, usernames are only used for logging in, so we need to be > able to filter or auto-complete based on first/last name (which is not > a problem). > > Does anyone know of a good way to let them quickly search by name and > set these seats without having to navigate away from the page? Any > AJAX utilities to recommend? I looked at YUI auto-complete, but that > might get tricky since ForeignKey expects an integer in this case > (id=int). It's very easy to set up auto-complete, but I'm not sure of > the best way to have it set the Int. > > Any ideas? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
