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Ability to select multiple items in the deepest level, to add them all at once to the dropbox

Posted by upupax on April 23, 2009 at 8:31am
Project:Hierarchical Select
Version:7.x-3.x-dev
Component:Code
Category:feature request
Priority:minor
Assigned:Unassigned
Status:needs review
Issue tags:HS4

Issue Summary

Hi, I was wondering if it is possible to allow user to add to dropbox more than just one element at once.
I've been looking for an option in API.txt but I found nothing.

I'm using the flatlist module 6.x-3.x-dev on drupal 6.10.

TIA, your module is great!

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#1

Posted by Wim Leers on April 23, 2009 at 10:39am

- How would you want to do this?
- Why would you want to do this?

#2

Posted by upupax on April 23, 2009 at 12:27pm

Like this video http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?yzzybqtzyjm .
It's a form I'm trying to develop to filter contacts and send them a message.
The first multiselect is a taxonomy form and the second is a multiselect list of nodes (this is a little list, but you have to imagine to have a big list of people).
Since this feature is really close to what dropbox actually does (and my code is full of bugs that I didn't show in the video) I thought to use the hs functionality, but I noticed there is no support for multiple selection in dropbox module.
I wonder if it could be set some how.

#3

Posted by Amitaibu on April 27, 2009 at 11:52am

* Why? - I'm also looking for the feature. My use case is that I need to several (child) terms, and I don't want to click on the 'Add' many times.
* How? - It could be a 'normal' multiple select or selection with checkboxes (when I added '#multiple' => TRUE in _hierarchical_select_process_render_hs_selects() I saw it already added those checkboxes). EDIT: I had better_select module switched on, so I saw the checkboxes.

#4

Posted by z.stolar on April 27, 2009 at 2:56pm

subscribing

#5

Posted by AmitV on May 5, 2009 at 9:41am

subscribing

#6

Posted by Wim Leers on May 6, 2009 at 9:30pm
Title:Multiple selection in dropbox» Ability to select multiple items in the deepest level, to add them all at once to the dropbox
Component:Code - Flat List» Code
Category:support request» feature request
Priority:normal» minor

Okay, I've thought about this before too.

1) *If* this makes it in, it'll be in the form of #type = select and #multiple = TRUE, *not* in the form of #type = checkboxes
2) This is a feature that will *only* be available when the dropbox is enabled.
3) It's been a while since I've been deep into HS, so I'll have to think more deeply about the possible implications of adding this.

But it'll get added. If anybody's willing to write the necessary patch (or start working on it, because it'll have to be configurable in the UI as well), I'll gladly accept your work :)

#7

Posted by Wim Leers on July 27, 2009 at 11:44am
Status:active» postponed

Not much interest + busy + I really need to get version 3 final out = this will be for a 3.x point release.

#8

Posted by robby.smith on March 4, 2010 at 1:59am

subscribing

#9

Posted by Bilmar on April 12, 2010 at 5:34am

subscribing

#10

Posted by no2x on April 16, 2010 at 5:29pm

Hi,

I also think, this would be an interesting feature.

@Wim Leers: Maybe there could be 2 aspects here. One is the option to add multiple items to the dropbox and the other one is the checkbox thing. I like checkboxes, because they are very user friendly. If you use HS in an exposed filter in a view, it might not be clear to every user, that he has to select items and has to click onto the Add button each time. Afterwards he has also to click the Search/Apply/whatever Button of the exposed filter.

So in my optinion it would be create to have the dropbow on the one hand and a checkbox type on the other side. What do you think?

#11

Posted by Wim Leers on April 20, 2010 at 11:34pm

@no2x: Adding support for checkboxes to HS would make HS' code even more complex. Plus it would no longer live up to its name. Plus it'd become a UI monstrosity.
Checkboxes are not *always* good.
I'm sorry, that won't happen for the foreseeable future. Thanks for your understanding.

#12

Posted by skitten on July 19, 2010 at 6:18am

Did you have thoughts on how you would implement it? I'm getting persistent requests for being able to control or shift click to select and add multiple items on my site.

#13

Posted by Renee S on August 5, 2010 at 4:49am

subscribing. Control-click FTW!

#14

Posted by goldlilys on August 6, 2010 at 10:09pm

Subscribing

#15

Posted by Wim Leers on August 25, 2010 at 9:13pm

This won't happen in HS 3, unless somebody rolls the patch. Sorry.

#16

Posted by ordually on February 4, 2011 at 3:53am

Subscribing

#17

Posted by Wim Leers on February 6, 2011 at 1:44pm

Tagging for HS4. Included in the HS4 roadmap: http://drupal.org/node/1052670.

#18

Posted by klonos on February 15, 2011 at 1:22pm
Version:6.x-3.x-dev» 7.x-3.x-dev

This will happen in the 7.x branch.

#19

Posted by Owen Barton on March 5, 2011 at 1:47am

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#20

Posted by Jerenus on November 1, 2012 at 3:19am

Subscribe

#21

Posted by anil614sagar on April 4, 2013 at 12:22pm

Dear Wim Leers & Subscribers,

Please find the patch files for above issue. I have tested patch files and working fine with latest stable version of HS.

Comments & suggestions are welcome :-)

Cheers,
Anil Sagar,
AZRI SOLUTIONS,
www.azrisolutions.com

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hierarchical_select.js_.patch 1.25 KB
hierarchical_select.module.patch 3.55 KB
hs_taxonomy.module.patch 2.35 KB

#22

Posted by Jerenus on April 4, 2013 at 5:07pm
Status:postponed» needs review

#23

Posted by anil614sagar on April 5, 2013 at 11:30am

Patch Updated to fix parents getting lost while updating terms with parents.

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hierarchical_select.module.patch 2.54 KB