Multi Selects for Fields

[eaquigley]

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Author Name: Elizabeth Quigley (@eaquigley)
Original Redmine Issue: 3765, https://redmine.hmdc.harvard.edu/issues/3765
Original Date: 2014-03-25
Original Assignee: Gustavo Durand

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Try using Multiple Select under Selected and Disabled Support for all multi select fields, which would also allow for auto-populate / auto-complete for any matching terms within the list: http://harvesthq.github.io/chosen/#selected-and-disabled-support

Metadata fields that should use this component:
-Subjects
-Type (Astro Metadata block)
-Language
-Country (Geospatial Metadata block)
All Biomedical terms will be multi-select:
-Design Type
-Factor Type
-Measurement Type
-Organism
-*Cell Type (coming soon... waiting to decide on hierarchical dropdown terms list and/or "type ahead" field for a large list like this one.)

[eaquigley]

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Original Redmine Comment
Author Name: Elizabeth Quigley (@eaquigley)
Original Date: 2014-04-23T18:59:56Z

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For beta, we will try having a scrollable panel that includes all the options with checkboxes next to them so they aren't displayed as a giant list.

[eaquigley]

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Original Redmine Comment
Author Name: Gustavo Durand (@scolapasta)
Original Date: 2014-04-29T15:46:33Z

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Mike, switched to checkboxes. I had to remove the style-class or was limiting it to a ver small space.

Now what we need is to switch it to a small (but not as small) scrollable area.

QA: when does with this ticket please keep it open and in dev (set to May 19?) so we can later examine using the "chosen" type.

[eaquigley]

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Original Redmine Comment
Author Name: Mike Heppler (@mheppler)
Original Date: 2014-04-29T21:44:55Z

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Cleaned up the select-checkbox lists on the dataset page, to be within a contained, scrollable list, and styled them to look like the other form elements on the page.

[eaquigley]

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Original Redmine Comment
Author Name: Kevin Condon (@kcondon)
Original Date: 2014-04-29T21:49:54Z

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Tested on 4/29

All fields have multi select check boxes except cell, which has the multi field control style.

Not sure if that last is by design but passing back to dev per instructions.

[eaquigley]

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Original Redmine Comment
Author Name: Elizabeth Quigley (@eaquigley)
Original Date: 2014-06-17T18:41:36Z

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Bringing this back into play since Gary mentioned doing something like this for at least subject field so it isn't such a large chunk of the page

[eaquigley]

@mheppler & @scolapasta what is going on with this?

[scolapasta]

Let's re review this when we get near the end.

[eaquigley]

Bringing this ticket back up. @scolapasta could we use the component used for searching through usernames for role assignments for this?

[scolapasta]

@eaquigley can we close this one?

[eaquigley]

@scolapasta no, this was never done for multi select fields. I can see this being needed even more with biomedical data. @posixeleni

[djbrooke]

@eaquigley gave me an overview of the importance of this, especially in those metadata schemas that have many options. Removing myself for now, will be added in a future release.

[RightInTwo]

This would be useful in general, also in combination with #4772.

[djbrooke]

Closing in favor of #6030 to evaluate as part of a larger effort.