UI change for enter bug

[Greg Hendricks]

On Tuesday 20 September 2005 20:34, David Miller wrote:
> Max Kanat-Alexander wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 17:35 -0600, Gregary Hendricks wrote:
> >> Selecting either a classification or product would refactor the page
> >> with the description off to one side of the dropdown. The refactoring
> >> could be javascript which would make it fast. For those with javascript
> >> disabled, a link that displays the page much as it currently exists
> >> would be good.
> >
> > 	Sounds good to me, as long as it was clear to users that they had to
> > first select a Classification and a Product. Might want to hide the rest
> > of the page before they do.

As I understand it, the classification is only to break up the list of 
products in the first place. Since I cannot have a product in more than one 
classification and since having a classification still does not allow me to 
create two identical products, It won't matter if the product list contains 
all products by default. But I will play with it.

> > 	To do this, you'd probably want to take the current query.cgi
> > JavaScript and make it totally generic. If you do this, try to keep in
> > mind the fact that we may have fields (in the future) whose lists depend
> > on other things than Product, and so the code should be expandable for
> > that. (See bug 308253 and bug 291433.)
>
> How about a little AJAX (with some fallback for people with old
> browsers)?  When you change the product, have it pull the list of
> components and such from the server and populate it.

Now we are talking :D
I have wanted an excuse to get my hands steeped in AJAX. 
Feel the clean ^.^

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Greg Hendricks 
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