Hi all, I've been doing Django and mostly backend Python for a few months, and I don't really know the limits of what can be done without resorting to JavaScript and Ajax. Here's what I need to do: the user wants to pick an individual from one of a number of lists and have the detailed information come up editable for the one picked. My top-level list is [Lions, Tigers, Bears, All]. The user picks Tigers, and then I present the second-level Tigers list: [Tony, Hobbes, Tigger, Rajah]. The user picks Hobbes, and then I present the detailed information for Hobbes in an editable form: name, address etc. How clunky does this have to be, in terms of mouse clicks and pages downloaded? I've read in more than one place that if you use JavaScript you'd better have a version of your page that works OK without it.
For extra credit, what high-powered tools would be needed to do autocompletion, for example the user starts typing "Hobbes" into the Name field and as soon as I find a unique match I present the details? Or, show a list of possible matches when the partial field is not unique? I've been reading books, but most of them just show me how to build a particular kind of website using Django. Thanks for any help you can lend! Bill Beal -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
