Re: Beginners question: select box with very much options

2009-06-18 Thread Daniel Roseman
On Jun 18, 4:37 pm, Mathias Waack wrote: > Hello django experts, > > let me first note I'm a beginner in both django and web-development at all. > > 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

Re: Beginners question: select box with very much options

2009-06-18 Thread Peter Herndon
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, the

Re: Beginners question: select box with very much options

2009-06-18 Thread chefsmart
Hi, What you are trying to achieve will require you to venture out into deeper web-development waters and learn about JavaScript, which is not related to Django at all. You will need to use Django in conjunction with JavaScript in your templates to get what you want to achieve. Please take a loo

Re: Beginners question: select box with very much options

2009-06-18 Thread Bruno Tikami
Hello Mathias, On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Mathias Waack 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 someth

Re: Beginners question

2009-02-26 Thread wegi
Thanks, everyone exactly what I was missing. wegi On 25 Feb., 15:28, Daniel Roseman wrote: > On Feb 25, 12:33 pm,wegi wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > I'm new to django, made my way through the tutorial and parts of the > > remaining documentation. But one thing remains unclear to me. Let's > > assu

Re: Beginners question

2009-02-25 Thread Daniel Roseman
On Feb 25, 12:33 pm, wegi wrote: > Hi all, > I'm new to django, made my way through the tutorial and parts of the > remaining documentation. But one thing remains unclear to me. Let's > assume I have two apps news and links which just manage these type of > objects. I have a view and a template f

Re: Beginners question

2009-02-25 Thread Alex Gaynor
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 7:33 AM, wegi wrote: > > Hi all, > I'm new to django, made my way through the tutorial and parts of the > remaining documentation. But one thing remains unclear to me. Let's > assume I have two apps news and links which just manage these type of > objects. I have a view and