Cheers Dan, i am looking forward to it. The workaround is fine for the moment, just not as slick as it could be :)
Phil PS: I have a couple of plugins which i would like to get some feedback on but nowhere to host them. Is there a code review section for jQuery somewhere ? Maybe you know. On Apr 12, 12:39 pm, "Dan G. Switzer, II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Phil, > > >I use a local array of the following form > > >values = [['Philip-f','2356'],['martin-b','2341']] > > >whereas the second value is the id of the user. When i select multiple > >users i want the ids to accumulate somewhere so i can pass them in my > >form as selectedUserIds. It is easy to add the ids to an array with > >the result function but what happens if somebody deletes a name in the > >middle. The related id is hard to delete from the selectedIds array. > > >So i guess the only option would be to have a function connected to > >the submission of the form which reads the string in the textarea and > >finds out the ids and injects those as parameters in the form, right ? > >That works but maybe there is a better way to achieve that. > > This is actually what the findValue() method was introduced to do. However, > Jörn has implemented the multiple values to the findValue() method yet. So > at the moment, if you're using the multiple select you'll have to do your > own parsing to match up the values in the text field to match up to their > internal ids. > > You can use it on singular values, but not multiple values yet. I'll see if > I can help on that portion over the next few days. Quite frankly, the > multiselect functionality will probably take a few revisions to get working > correctly. It's a new behavior and one that's likely to generate lots of > feedback. > > -Dan
