[Patternfly] Forms/ widget requirement

[Robb Hamilton]

On Apr 10, 2014, at 10:51 AM, Malini Rao <mrao at redhat.com> wrote:

> ok. Well, it is something to consider since we have an existing requirement.

i think the counterpoint is that if you need more than a single line you’re in danger of verbosity.  less is more in this context as you should be able to readily identify a selection based on it’s label alone.  if you can’t, a poor label has been chosen for the selection (see the namespacing is important argument).  :)  

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> From: "Robb Hamilton" <rhamilto at redhat.com>
> To: "Malini Rao" <mrao at redhat.com>
> Cc: patternfly at redhat.com, "Brian Dellascio" <bdellasc at redhat.com>, "Kyle Baker" <kybaker at redhat.com>, "Matt Reid" <mreid at redhat.com>, "Sj Clark" <sclark at redhat.com>
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> On Apr 10, 2014, at 10:32 AM, Malini Rao <mrao at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> Cool! Can the supplementary info be multi-line too?
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> it *could* be, but the implementation is currently single line.
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Robb Hamilton" <rhamilto at redhat.com>
>> To: "Malini Rao" <mrao at redhat.com>
>> Cc: patternfly at redhat.com, "Brian Dellascio" <bdellasc at redhat.com>, "Kyle Baker" <kybaker at redhat.com>, "Matt Reid" <mreid at redhat.com>, "Sj Clark" <sclark at redhat.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2014 10:28:42 AM
>> Subject: Re: Forms/ widget requirement
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>> On Apr 10, 2014, at 9:53 AM, Malini Rao <mrao at redhat.com> wrote:
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>>> Hi, 
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>>> In Ovirt, we have the need for rich dropdowns where another piece of information ( single or multi-line) is concatenated with the main drop down value. The need here is that the user needs a little more information AT THE TIME of making a selection in the dropdown in order for it to be a meaningful selection. For e.g, it could be a drop down with Host IDs that were discovered and the IDs may make no sense without a brief description of what type of host it is.
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>>> With the right interaction details and visual design, this may be a useful addition to the patternfly widget library and forms pattern.
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>> the widget we’re using for multi-selects (Bootstrap-select [1]) supports this sort of supplementary data (see attached screenshot or https://www.patternfly.org/wp-content/uploads/patternfly/tests/bootstrap-select.html).  it’s worth noting that Bootstrap-select supports both single and multi select, so essentially we already have this functionality in patternfly, we just don’t highlight it.  that’s easy enough to change.
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>> [image/png:Screen Shot 2014-04-10 at 10.24.05 AM.PNG]
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>> [1] http://silviomoreto.github.io/bootstrap-select/
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