Name Picker
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One of the things which has bugged me for a long time is getting a good name picker. We have been using a servlet on our Domino server for a long time which looks at views in the NAB and allows the user to select individual names to be added to a document in a web browser. Alas the servlet is showing its age and with the advent of AJAX it is about time that we came up with something better.
So the requirements:
A generic popup window which allows a user to select one or many values from a very large view (100,000 documents plus)
It has to perform well
It has to be cross browser compatable (at least IE and Firefox)
It has to be easily re-usable
I have put up a demo page which looks at a view in my sister site - 50WordReview.com, over the next few days I'll put up an explanation of how it works and some of the tricks which I have used.
Update: I have added a couple of articles which will hopefull be useful. How to use the name picker and how the picker works.
Bookmark :
One of the things which has bugged me for a long time is getting a good name picker. We have been using a servlet on our Domino server for a long time which looks at views in the NAB and allows the user to select individual names to be added to a document in a web browser. Alas the servlet is showing its age and with the advent of AJAX it is about time that we came up with something better.
So the requirements:
A generic popup window which allows a user to select one or many values from a very large view (100,000 documents plus)
It has to perform well
It has to be cross browser compatable (at least IE and Firefox)
It has to be easily re-usable
I have put up a demo page which looks at a view in my sister site - 50WordReview.com, over the next few days I'll put up an explanation of how it works and some of the tricks which I have used.
Update: I have added a couple of articles which will hopefull be useful. How to use the name picker and how the picker works.









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Kewl. Turn on the JavaScript console and see if anything throws an error. I will give it a try.
Regards,
Bruce
Posted by Bruce Elgort At 03:47:42 On 17/08/2005 | - Website - |
This is WAAAAY COOOOL
Posted by Thomas Schulte At 14:20:47 On 18/08/2005 | - Website - |
Bruce, the bug is very strange, I am just setting the value of the text field, but it is not displaying. If I uput an alert after setting the value then it seems to have been set correctly but nothing is showing up. I will try and fix it when I have a spare half hour.
Matt
Posted by Matt White At 20:39:44 On 16/08/2005 | - Website - |
- Julian
Posted by Julian Robichaux At 23:22:13 On 15/08/2005 | - Website - |
Posted by Claudia At 14:58:56 On 20/11/2005 | - Website - |
Chris
Posted by Christian Brandlehner At 06:52:02 On 16/08/2005 | - Website - |
Sweet.
Posted by Bob Obringer At 14:38:59 On 16/08/2005 | - Website - |
Posted by At 18:04:46 On 23/11/2005 | - Website - |
I tried to use the demo on OS X Safari and it did not work. Just an FYI,
Regards,
Bruce
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Posted by Edwin. At 21:02:54 On 21/04/2008 | - Website - |
I have reworked it into a single design element, and added several new features including:
- Support for single categories
- Support for multiple return values into differing fields
- Triggering onchange events on the underyling form
I want to give something back to the Notes community which has given me so much, so I have posted this on my (still nacent) blog in the post { Link }
I hope everyone will take a look, help me identify any bugs, and give me feedback for improving it.
---Scott Jenkins
Posted by Scott A Jenkins At 15:03:33 On 23/04/2008 | - Website - |