Autocomplete on forms to create new theses, etc., doesn't work well

Submitted by davidmorrow on Mon, 06/01/2009 - 20:30 View all bug reports and feature requests
Project:Phylo Codebase
Component:Site functionality
Category:bug report
Priority:normal
Assigned:Unassigned
Status:active
Description

Certain forms used to add things to the database have "autocomplete" fields, which make suggestions based on what you've already typed. But the autocomplete fields in these forms don't work as well as the search box does. They can't accept search terms out of order, and the suggestions sometimes appear in the wrong place.

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Posted by davidmorrow on 3 Jun 2009 at 8:27 pm

I've overridden the default autocomplete handler with the same function that supplies results to the main search form. This is a big improvement, though there's still some weirdness about the placement of the autocomplete div.

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