Hello,
I'm thinking about Jomsocial's core and I think that it will be great to create some dependency fields. For example I'm creating a health community and I would like to create a field to put which is the hospital that work my users....the problem is that there are thousands of them. Now I have created a textbox field but this have many CONS:
- Users must to introduce the name of the hospital and can fill wrong. For example some hospitals have got different names or people know they about different name. Hospital Universitario de Bellvitge, Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge or HUB. These three names are for the same hospital.
- People can miss some letters of the name.
- With actual system it's posible that some users have got different names for the same hospital. In this case option to search users with advanced search function is not useful
I thought to create a select field called Hospital with thousands of options, but in these case it will be low usefull and so ugly.
An option it will be to create dependency fields, for example a first field called "Location" (select field type) and later another select field called "Hospital",. With this system we can do a first filtering, and later show another field with Hospitals that are in the first.
Other option it will be to create some smart textbox, that allow to write some strings, but suggest the name of the hospital. Mayve comparing the introduced letters by the user with other names stored on database. And make an option to Add new name in cases that are not stored the name of the hospital.
I don't know which is the best option but I think that this situation, is not only for my personal case, and can be interesting in other situations.
See you and best regards,
