Re: standard ajax or jquery functions for browser data entry

[Peter Connell <Peter.Connell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim,
Perhaps I could send you, offline, the auto-complete example I mentioned, if it may help.

Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Franz
Sent: Wednesday, 29 December 2010 2:27 p.m.
To: WEB400@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [WEB400] standard ajax or jquery functions for browser data entry

Peter - I appreciate the detail.
I've got the autocomplete working (but with jquery 1.4.x) - will take 
another look at jquery ui (i found an example with the 1.4 vers).
I don't have the part working yet to take the selected record, and populate 
the other screen fields (mine is also name/address) in fact I'm stuck on it.

I am also getting pressure from users to make the screen image "not boring", 
and searching for a working demo app to show them that they can say "yes - 
that's what I want" - but it needs to be a form of data entry, not shopping 
cart click to select. Their data entry involves name,address, phone, & email 
(not in the database), plus comments, several $ amounts, and several dates.

Jim Franz

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Connell" <Peter.Connell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries'" <web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, December 27, 2010 4:56 PM
Subject: Re: [WEB400] standard ajax or jquery functions for browser data 
entry


> Jim,
>
> Like you, I also try to follow the same simple approach as our website is 
> strictly for paid-up business subscribers.
> I have also recently been looking for a good auto-complete implementation 
> and have decided to adopt a newer version from jQuery via their recent 
> jquery-ui-1.9m2 library.
> Feedback seemed to indicate this is now a superior library for enrichment 
> and the auto-complete is said to offer more flexibility.
>
> My requirement was to enrich an existing address line input on a form 
> while still retaining the familiar line of input boxes for street, suburb 
> and city.
> While there are examples around, it is often difficult to find one that 
> fits your needs, caching in particular.
> However, I have found sufficient code to put together a successful 
> solution.
> The street name field provides the user with an auto-complete list 
> containing the complete addresses for those that start with the 1st 3 
> chars (or more) entered.
> Selecting a full address from the list will automatically populate all the 
> address input boxes without any further keystrokes.
>
> Cheers, Peter
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
> Behalf Of Kevin Turner
> Sent: Monday, 27 December 2010 11:04 a.m.
> To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
> Subject: Re: [WEB400] standard ajax or jquery functions for browser data 
> entry
>
> If you want good working examples of those sorts of things then it is 
> probably best to pick a decent javascript library (like 
> jQuery/Mootools/Glow/Dojo/ExtJS/Rico etc). Have a look at the examples and 
> decide which one fits the bill for the sort of things you want to do. A 
> colleague pointed me in the direction of jQuery a while ago and I have 
> never been short of a plethora of examples of how to do all the things you 
> would expect from a good rich UI....and of course the examples are well 
> documented, they work and they are browser agnostic.