Jørn Wildt

Hello, dear people,

after days my mental health is in danger severely, hence...

I would like to avoid pagesetter-lists, so on given choice menus - the categorisation should freely develop.

Simply sounded, but usually devil's in detail.
Example: I put in a Pubype named -news- there is a field -town-. The user can put down the suitable town by their own. These towns should be listed, but only onetime ofcourse - sthats my problem.
With listlields no problem: listBrowser, CatBrowser. The author's list (pagesetter.net) works only with core.fields.

Who can help me there - I am boarded up.

Thanks to

How about making a field uses autocompletion by polling from the database?... (This might be difficult?)

You could always include a select box with a value (let's call it 'other') that, with the help of some javascript and some css it can change the select box for an text box where you can edit the town name.

You would have both, one hidden unless the value is 'other', then it hides itself and shows the other one with a button (maybe) to show back the select box. All that the select box does is fill the hidden text box with the correct town name, and if it's not there the user could input his/her own.

Why is this simpler? Because it only needs to poll the town list once, when the page is loading. This is the part, though, that's tricky and maybe this is where someone else with more experience than me could pick it up?

I hope this helps you