Make selecting a conference when adding a submission more user friendly

[nodunayo]

At the moment, this is the experience people have:

This makes it difficult to use and it's hard to work out whether the conference you are looking for has already been added or not.

Perhaps there's a way to type in a conference, select a year and then find or create the record depending on what's been entered?

Any other ideas welcome!

[deniseyu]

@nodunayo I've used this library before: https://harvesthq.github.io/chosen/

When you click in the dropdown menu, a textbox appears, and it will do an exact-string match against all the dropdown options. It's pretty great for filtering huge collections.

The drawback is it doesn't work on mobile browsers at all, the last time I tried.

[jemagee]

Hey - there’s a gem that does what I was going to try and write from scratch (in my mind i can see how it works with ajax and onKeyUp but just never done it, and testing JS is such a pain these days :)

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[nodunayo]

Ooh, thanks for this @deniseyu!

Do you know what happens on mobile? Will it just be as if there was no library installed?

Thanks!

[deniseyu]

@nodunayo correct, I think the JS will become turned off on mobile and it will default to however the mobile browser handles dropdowns.

[andrew]

Slightly improved by #23

[jemagee]

Would you be opposed to including redis in the project?

[nodunayo]

Hmm, I'd have to do a bit more research on that. My instinct says avoid it unless you have to.

Sorry for the slow response! I've been away.

[flyinggrizzly]

This is again slightly different after #66

Event years are now grouped in optgroups

RailsConf
  2016
  2017
Bath Ruby
  2016
  2017

[rubydesign]

if you filtered out past ones and sort them in time order the list would be quite use-able until you have many more conferences in the db

[nodunayo]

@rubydesign — how would it work if you wanted to add a proposal to past events? In fact, the vast majority of the time, people are adding proposals in for past events, not upcoming ones.

[rubydesign]

@nodunayo Sorry, then i misunderstood the app. I thought people add proposals for talks they want to give in the future. Sorry

[nodunayo]

@rubydesign No worries at all. Thanks for trying to help! :-)

[rianrainey]

I'd like to use hotwire, if possible. I came across this blog post. Thoughts on doing something like this where you typeahead and it filters the dropdown?

Or are you okay doing a JS library? Might be easier. I see you still have jquery-rails so maybe you're not all in on hotwire just yet. This looks like a good list of vanilla js libraries to choose from: https://www.cssscript.com/best-autocomplete/ . Let us know which one you'd like to see implemented.