Would be nice to add combined ActiveSelect & Autocomplete widget.
It should be Activeselect like but using autocomplete fields on each or selected levels instead of dropdown selects. And allowing inserting new tags in a vocabulary with their parents.
In this case I see the Activeselect widget's config like:
First level bar: type - dropdown/autocomplete; new terms at this level - allow/deny
Second level bar: type - dropdown/autocomplete; new terms at this level - allow/deny
and so on (it would be nice to add more than 3 levels here)

Let me explain why we need it. We'd like to add a geography tag to our genealogical site for birthplaces/deathplaces and similar data.
We need depth detalisation e.g. Country->Region->District->City/Village.
1.Here first level of taxonomy is country and it is known(determinated) list. So first level settings would be type-dropdown (or autocomplete) and new terms denied
2.We know and have Region list for our primary country, but dunno for others. So second level setting would be autocoplete and allow new terms
and so on on next 2 levels.
This would allow site users to build geography taxonomy in process of adding their data.

And I think it will be great functionality for many other hierarchical taxonomies and will got "hierarchy" really to work.

Comments

cornmuffin’s picture

cornmuffin commented
Component: Code » User interface

+1 for this. I would be willing to do unless there is a good reason why it hasn't already been done. Any suggestions or comments about how this should work.

momper’s picture

momper commented

+1 - i have no skills in programming, but can test ...

greetings momper

thepanz’s picture

thepanz commented

+1 too
but I think that implementing this widget can be a pain if you have to manage a n-levels taxonomy tree.
(*) I'm going to implement a 2 level widget with a drop-down select for 1st level and an auto-complete for the 2nd level. The autocomplete will suggest only terms related to selected parent. If you have any suggestion let me know!

I also created an "autocomplete plus" widget that allow auto-complete and multi-terms with a "new" user-interaction. I'll post it when I'll merge with (*).

Regards

vacilando’s picture

vacilando commented

+1 and subscribing!

lissener’s picture

lissener commented

This would be exactly what I'm looking for! Is there a way to subscribe to an issue and get updates when there are additions here? As you can tell, I'm a newbie to the drupal.org site and to drupal, but have some programming knowledge. So maybe I could get up to speed enough to contribute.

leanazulyoro’s picture

leanazulyoro commented

I'm also looking for something like this, i'll give it a try as soon as I have some time.

gagarine’s picture

gagarine commented

I think with some modification of http://drupal.org/project/hierarchical_select that can be done.

magnus’s picture

magnus commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

Cleanup of old issues. According to maintainer: "active development is only done for the 6.x branch! 5.x is not supported any more".
Open a new issue if problem still exist.

vacilando’s picture

vacilando commented

This is not a problem but a feature request.

gagarine’s picture

gagarine commented
Version: 5.x-1.x-dev » 6.x-1.x-dev
Status: Closed (won't fix) » Active