Feature Proposal: New combobox TWiki Form Field Type

Motivation Description and Documentation Examples Impact Implementation Discussion

Motivation

In some cases it is desirable to have a fixed picklist, and at the same time an edit field to override the picklist options.

Description and Documentation

Add a new combobox form field type with:

• Text input field
• Button
• HTML Select

Sample form field definition:

Examples

Impact

Implementation

• Show text input field and button
• When button is pressed hide input field and show the select tag
• On focus loss of select tag:
  • Update input field with selected option, and
  • Toggle visibility back to input field

-- Contributors: Peter Thoeny - 2013-03-27

Discussion

Just realized, instead of a new select+edit type it might be better to introduce a new combobox type. one might easily miss the select+edit type if it is documented alongside other select types. Opinions?

-- Peter Thoeny - 2013-03-27

I changed the proposal from select+edit type to combobox type.

-- Peter Thoeny - 2013-03-28

This feature is accepted by JerusalemReleaseMeeting2013x03x29

-- Peter Thoeny - 2013-03-29

This is now in SVN trunk.

-- Peter Thoeny - 2013-03-29