Jannis Leidel implemented autocomplete in admin, and I've done it a few times in user forms. Jquery has a nice autocomplete plugin (http://bassistance.de), plus I think there's one in the next Jquery UI beta/trunk. IIRC, there's a current GSoC project to add autocomplete to admin.
In short, there's lots of prior art from which to learn. But the summary is that you will need to write a view that pulls possible matches from the db, and returns them in whatever format is required by whichever JavaScript component you adopt (or write). Then add a URL for your js to call via Ajax, add the js to your template, and you're in business. ---Peter On 6/18/09, Bruno Tikami <brunotik...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Mathias, > > On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Mathias Waack > <mathias.wa...@rantzau.de>wrote: > >> >> Hello django experts, >> >> let me first note I'm a beginner in both django and web-development at >> all. > > > welcome! > > >> >> I have a form with some select boxes containing several million options. >> Now >> I'd like to have something like the search field in wikipedia, where I get >> suggestions during typing. > > > there are two common features that should help you get it done: suggestion > and autocomplete. A suggestion feature will show you some common searched > keywords (like youtube) while the autocomplete stuff will show you some > database records containing the typed text. > > >> I'm fairly sure this question has been answered several times, but I >> haven't >> found any feasible solution. Are there any special keyword you're using >> for >> this kind of input fields? > > > These features are implemented in JavaScript, as they are related to the > data representation _logic_ so it has nothing to do with special keywords > on inputs. > > > >> >> Would be nice to have a solution working with last stable django, but just >> in >> case I could also upgrade to 1.1alpha. >> > > I don't have any link to send you right now but once you know a little bit > more of it, I think you can google it ;-) > > >> >> Thanks! >> >> Mathias >> >> > Tkm > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
