replace jquery-ui autocomplete with typeahead.js

[mjgiarlo]

Issue by jcoyne
Wednesday Jan 07, 2015 at 17:53 GMT
Originally opened as samvera-deprecated/sufia#829

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https://twitter.github.io/typeahead.js/examples/

[mjgiarlo]

Comment by cam156
Tuesday Jun 09, 2015 at 18:12 GMT

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@jcoyne What is the reason for the change? Does this fix any bugs, or just better technology?

[mjgiarlo]

Comment by mjgiarlo
Monday Dec 14, 2015 at 19:28 GMT

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@jcoyne Can you provide a brief rationale for this change? Either that or close the issue.

[mjgiarlo]

Comment by hackmastera
Monday Dec 14, 2015 at 20:07 GMT

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I've played around with this locally. My primary use case is providing 2 different authority sources as autocomplete options on the same autocomplete dropdown. Unfortunately typeahead doesn't come with any styling and I didn't get it to work right before I needed to move on, so I currently don't have anything to contribute back.

[mjgiarlo]

Comment by mjgiarlo
Tuesday Dec 15, 2015 at 18:28 GMT

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No rationale, so I am closing for now.

[mjgiarlo]

Comment by jcoyne
Wednesday Mar 30, 2016 at 01:22 GMT

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Rational: Use for multiple sources.

[little9]

I've started to work on this over at https://github.com/little9/hyrax/tree/typeahead-js

For single fields it works fine and is styled just as well as jQuery UI's autocomplete, but I'm running into issues for repeatable fields. When you
use typeahead on an element it adds a ton of markup, which I think is breaking .manage_fields from hydra-editor.

[adamjarling]

@no-reply @little9 Could either of you point me to a page/view/url in default Hyrax where this is used, and a visual or functional problem with the multiple fields? Guess I'm still unclear on the rational "Use for multiple sources".