topic Re: Auto suggest meta data in Alfresco Archive

Auto suggest meta data

hotnuts21 — Wed, 12 May 2010 10:20:22 GMT

We have extended the meta data model to have a lot of custom meta data. Two of these fields are Location - which is a category selection popup box. This is a very strict location list according to a gazzateer.The other is Alt location, which is for all other spellings of the place name or historical

Re: Auto suggest meta data

zaizi — Wed, 12 May 2010 11:20:01 GMT

This is very easy to do within Alfresco Share (we've done this already). There is YUI control for this. http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/autocomplete.

Alfresco Explorer is another matter. Should still be possible to do.

Ainga

Re: Auto suggest meta data

hotnuts21 — Wed, 12 May 2010 13:09:24 GMT

This is in share so that looks good.

We are very new to the development of Alfresco so if anyone has any pointers to articles that show how to utilise YUI in share, that would be helpfull. We have not looked at share much yet.

Thanks for the tip zaizi

Re: Auto suggest meta data

gavinc — Thu, 13 May 2010 09:17:29 GMT

Hi,

Although targeted at 3.3 the Forms Development Kit (http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Forms_Development_Kit) may be useful to you as it includes an example autocomplete control (which uses the YUI autocomplete widget). It currently looks up suggestions from Google or Yahoo but you could easily adapt it for your own use.

The FDK itself requires 3.3 but there's nothing in the autocomplete example that won't work in 3.2.

Hope that helps!