Hi,
I am using text_field_with_auto_complete on a field. I update a part of
my page if user chooses any particular option listed by auto_complete
list. To do this I call and remote_function with :after_update_element.
But I also wanna update a part of my page if user doesn’t select
anything from the autocomplete list.
For EX: I want to Bring it to notice of the user that the “Name” that he
has not entered is not in our database. The div like below should be
higlighted
Hospital entered was not found. Please
enter the details here:
So what I need to do is : When control moves out of the field on which
auto_complete is enacted, and when user doesn’t select any option listed
by auto_complete, I want to trigger a different action.
I tried to simulate this using text_field_with_auto_complete along with
observe_field :on => :change. It didn’t help, as onChange gets triggered
on both cases: User selecting one option from the list and User entering
a new Name.
How can I solve this? Please suggest.
Regards,
SG
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 9:46 PM, Sandeep G.
[email protected] wrote:
observe_field :on => :change. It didn’t help, as onChange gets triggered
on both cases: User selecting one option from the list and User entering
a new Name.
model_auto_completer
(http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/model_auto_completer) needed
something similar. In this case the feature is to rollback to the last
valid completion if the user enters free text.
To accomplish this the textfield has a custom cache attribute. When
the user selects some completion the cache is reset in
:after_update_element. There’s an onblur handler that compares the
cache to the current value, and rollbacks if they are different. In
your case you’d show the warning.
That’s the basic idea, have a look at its implementation for further
details.
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 11:39 PM, Xavier N. [email protected] wrote:
To accomplish this the textfield has a custom cache attribute. When
the user selects some completion the cache is reset in
:after_update_element. There’s an onblur handler
It is an onchange handler currently.
Hi Sandeep,
Can you show me how to call a remote_function
with :after_update_element? I need almost the exact same
functionality. Once a user chooses an option from the autocomplete
list, i want to update a div with more information relating to the
selected option. Also, did you find a solution for when the user
doesnt select anything from the list?
Also, how did you manage to parse the id of the selected option along
with the form values? Mine is a belongs_to association and so i am
using model_auto_completer for now. I hope you can help me with this.
Here is my post on this
http://groups.google.co.in/group/rubyonrails-talk/browse_thread/thread/5a91ddc41c1c44d9
On Jul 20, 12:46 am, Sandeep G. <rails-mailing-l…@andreas-
Hi Sandeep,
Can you show me how to call a remote_function
with :after_update_element? I need almost the exact same
functionality. Once a user chooses an option from the autocomplete
list, i want to update a div with more information relating to the
selected option. Also, did you find a solution for when the user
doesnt select anything from the list?
Also, how did you manage to parse the id of the selected option along
with the form values? Mine is a belongs_to association and so i am
using model_auto_completer for now. I hope you can help me with this.
Here is my post on this
http://groups.google.co.in/group/rubyonrails-talk/browse_thread/thread/5a91ddc41c1c44d9
On Jul 20, 12:46 am, Sandeep G. <rails-mailing-l…@andreas-
Hi Vinay,
This shud help you,
getCommunity is the action in my controller, which gets called after
update.
Also notice, that i get the id of chosen value by doing value.id , also
events are captured in element and value. Hope this helps.
<%= text_field_with_auto_complete ‘salary_review’,‘company’, {},
:skip_style => true ,:frequency => 0.1, :indicator =>
‘status-indicator’,
:after_update_element => “function(element,value){” +
remote_function(:update => ‘salary_review_company’, :url => { :action =>
:getCommunity }, :with => "‘id=’+ value.id ") + “}” %>
If the user doesn’t choose any, i tried using observe_field. But it
didn’t do too well, so i stopped using it.
Regards,
Sandeep G
Vinay wrote:
Hi Sandeep,
Can you show me how to call a remote_function
with :after_update_element? I need almost the exact same
functionality. Once a user chooses an option from the autocomplete
list, i want to update a div with more information relating to the
selected option. Also, did you find a solution for when the user
doesnt select anything from the list?
Also, how did you manage to parse the id of the selected option along
with the form values? Mine is a belongs_to association and so i am
using model_auto_completer for now. I hope you can help me with this.
Here is my post on this
http://groups.google.co.in/group/rubyonrails-talk/browse_thread/thread/5a91ddc41c1c44d9
On Jul 20, 12:46�am, Sandeep G. <rails-mailing-l…@andreas-
Thanks Sandeep! will try this soon. “Events are captured in element
and value”. I dont quite understand that. Can you please explain? I
dont know much of JS and am quite new to ROR too.
Ideally, I want a functionality like Gmail’s To address bar. It should
have autocomplete, find_or_create_by_email and an extra feature of a
live search after_update_element which updates a div with more info
about the contact using the email/name entered in the field. If the
entered string does not match any results, it should validate for an
email address and create a contact using that info alone. I know its a
tall ask :)… but things are falling into place and I just thought it
would be helpful to me if you had any tips since you seem to have done
something similar to an extent. Thanks again!
On Oct 6, 12:26 pm, Sandeep G. <rails-mailing-l…@andreas-