On 26 sep, 19:12, Donn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I thought I'd ask before rolling my own (at tedious pace) widget/whatever: > > If you have a foreign key field to a table of thousands of, say, author names, > the drop-down control becomes a real problem: > 1. It's not paged so all the items have to be stuffed into the html. > 2. It's damn hard to use. > > What are the alternatives? Any working solutions out there? How does one offer > a choice out of thousands?
Most answers will require javascript. The 'simplest' one is to use a "popup" window in which you'll have paging, filtering etc. More complex (well... not necessarily more complex in fact) are ajax based - like, as David mentioned, an autocomplete combo. If you want to avoid javascript, you'll need to store the current form's state and whatnots (using session) and redirect to a page displaying possible choices with (just like with the popup solution) paging, filtering etc, and once choice made "return" to the form's page restoring saved state. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
