[Patternfly] Forms/ widget requirement

[Malini Rao]

Cool! Can the supplementary info be multi-line too?

----- 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


On Apr 10, 2014, at 9:53 AM, Malini Rao <mrao at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi, 
> 
> 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.
> 
> With the right interaction details and visual design, this may be a useful addition to the patternfly widget library and forms pattern.

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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[1] http://silviomoreto.github.io/bootstrap-select/