On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 11:19 -0800, Rob Thorne wrote:
The country example was only an example, since it's easy to explain. My actual use cases are much larger:
* Looking up a contact from a voter list... you want the user to type from the name, but get back a voter/contact id string or number. * Type the name of a political district (say, a Canadian parliamentary riding), but get back its ID number.
In these cases, I'd probably have alternate UIs to work with non-JavaScript aware clients (say, a search page), since the AJAX and non-AJAX versions of the UI would need to be pretty different.
Rob
I would look at the nodereference autoselect widget. It takes a node title for input and converts it into an nid before stuffing it in the db.