Re: standard ajax or jquery functions for browser data entry

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.