By Pushkar Gaikwad on

Ok, in my Content type, the user has to choose one of the 150 options, and I don't know what can be the best way to provide this keeping usability in mind ? I mean a drop down of 150 options is not that great.

150 check boxes or 150 radio box also sucks. So What can I use here as I have ran out of ideas ? :) something ajaxified would be supercool...

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dnguyen’s picture

dnguyen commented

What kind of AJAXification do you have in mind? That the 150 options are subdivided into categories...so that they could click on one category, and see the, say, 30 options associated with it?

Pushkar Gaikwad’s picture

Pushkar Gaikwad commented

ya, that's the problem that I am not able to come up with any kind of categories for them. Currently what I am doing is, I have provided a text box widget, as soon as the person starts entering the name, say "mi"...it suggests michael so the user can select it.

My problem is, the user can still go ahead and submit Marvin or daniel, in the text box as he can not be forced to be choose that suggested option.

OK, here is the exact situation.

People are submitting research papers to my site and have to select a field of which technology they belong too. I have put around 150 technologies and feels they cover pretty much everything but I know there are many fields which I have not covered, and I don't want members to submit the research paper into wrong category, hence I have to give them the option of suggestion of field.

Now the problem with this is, there is Already "Mobile computing" field created by me, but ppl are still creating there own fields of "Mobile networking" which I don't think make any sense as after six month, I may be having thousands of categories with each having one,one research paper and they all will become meaningless and impossible to navigate

I hope I am clear what I am looking for :) and I hope I can get some solution for this

Thanks

gareth_w’s picture

gareth_w commented

and why good moderation is needed. However, you should be able to use synonyms/related terms to relate the taxonomy terms to one another, but it's still a manual job to be done.

Can't answer the original problem though.