[Kss-devel] KSS enabled SiteUser Autocomplete widget

[Godefroid Chapelle]

Victor Fernandez de Alba wrote:
> Hi,
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> I’ve been trying to develop an AT widget that would search the PAS for 
> all the available users in the site. It would be great if that widget 
> will have the autocomplete feature. The idea came from a widget I liked 
> very much that the dojo library have and I wanted to create an AT widget 
> that emule its behavior.
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>  
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> It would be of a great use for those who have a large user databases 
> such as LDAP based ones, as is my case.
> 
>  
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> I borrowed the code from the “sharing” tab which already use KSS to 
> search the PAS, and I managed to integrate it in a widget. Then, created 
> a new KSS file and register it to the portal_kss with a set of modified 
> definitions from the one uses the “sharing” tab. It works perfectly. 

Great !

> Now I’m stuck on adding the autocomplete behavior. I’ve tried the KSS events 
> keypress, keyup, keydown with no effect… However, I’ve tried with 
> another type of event, and worked, like timeout or change… Any ideas?
>
> Víctor Fernández de Alba Encinas

I am afraid the autocomplete part needs to happen in JS code.

Balazs has worked on code that autocomples/live searches content :

http://svn.plone.org/svn/collective/Products.CMFBibliographyAT/branches/ree-martior-kss/

I have no idea how easy it would be to make it work with PAS as well.


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