[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Autocompleting text boxes in trunk

[Mike Rylander]

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Lebbeous Fogle-Weekley
<lebbeous at esilibrary.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> A recent commit to trunk, http://svn.open-ils.org/trac/ILS/changeset/18762 ,
> features a new data store for Dojo widgets that can lazy-load items using
> open-ils.pcrud.
>
[snip]
>
> For now, I'm posing this question: should the pcrud-based Dojo data store
> and the autocompleting text box be backported to the 2.0 and 1.6 branches?
>  The commit referenced above includes a sprinkling of the widget (one place
> in Acquisitions, three places in booking), but there are several more places
> where it could be usefully deployed.  The dropdowns that need replaced are
> those that may seem fine in development/test setups, but become unwieldy or
> even unusable with a lot a real, production data loaded.
>

IMO this makes it a bug fix and should be backported.  Extending the
reach to areas not currently broken might be too much, but that's not
proposed ... I say +1.

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