[OPEN-ILS-DEV] ***SPAM*** Using dijit controls in staff client

[Scott Prater]

Hello, Robert --

Take a look at the way the FilteringSelect is used for survey
questions, lower down in the register.js file.  You can also see a
mostly working (though there's a bug I need to fix) implementation in
that same file here:

https://github.com/sprater/Evergreen/commit/f3ecb0a536570e30f27b3ca5604ec476c8b71381

Depending on what you want to do, changes to register_table.tt2 should
be very minimal;  almost all the heavy lifting isa done in
register.js.  Again, look at the survey questions HTML for clues
(though I should point out that the survey questions form elements are
also moderately broken).

-- Scott

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 2:49 PM,  <rwalsh at excalibur-solutions.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm struggling to add a simple drop-down to the register_table.tt2 page
> in the staff client. I have things working properly (the correct data is
> shown and updates are saved) with a basic HTML SELECT control, but to
> match the look-and-feel of the page I think I need to use either a
> dijit.form.FilteringSelect or a dijit.form.Select. I can get
> dijit.form.FilteringSelect to display, but the first reference to the
> control in the javascript code (in register.js) seems to halt further
> script processing. I've tried creating the widget programmatically and
> adding it to the DOM, and I've tried to create the control in the HTML
> code (with and without an explicitly created analog in javascript). The
> results so far are always the same - the page simply stops loading
> either right before or right after my drop-down is displayed, depending
> on which approach I take.
>
> The data I'm presenting in the control comes from the user settings
> table, so I don't think the existing field mapper infrastructure can be
> used to dynamically create an appropriate widget.
>
> Thanks for any guidance that might point me in the right direction.
>
> Robert Walsh
> Owner / Senior Consultant
> Excalibur Solutions, Inc.
> http://www.excalibur-solutions.com
>
>