jQuery UI MultiSelect Widget

Adds Eric Hynds jQuery UI MultiSelect Widget (https://github.com/ehynds/jquery-ui-multiselect-widget) to select fields (optional multiselect only) in Drupal.

Drupal 8+ Alternatives

For Drupal8+ we suggest to use for example:

• https://www.drupal.org/project/choices
• https://www.drupal.org/project/chosen
• https://www.drupal.org/project/select2

with similar functionality and without jQuery dependencies. Also see #3076171: Provide a new library to replace jQuery UI autocomplete for a great comparison.

This jQuery Plugin is great because it offers:

• Small Interface (in contrast to many other multiselects)
• Good usability
• Nice filter options
• Great styling oportunities and beautiful default style
• Configurability
• Integration into Drupals jQuery

Options (easy configuration on administration page):

• Multiple ([multiple=multiple]) selects only (leave single selects untouched)
• Use additional Filter functionality
• JQuery subselector (further filtering by jQuery selector)

Installation and configuration

1. Download and extract Eric Hynds's "jQuery UI MultiSelect Widget" jQuery Plugin to the "libraries" folder (sites/all/libraries), named "jquery-ui-multiselect-widget". This folder for example should contain a "src" folder as direct subfolder.
2. Download and enable this module
3. (Already enabled and working with default settings now!)
4. Go to {YourURL}/admin/config/user-interface/jquery_ui_multiselect_widget and configure it
5. Done! Happy using!
6. Please visit our websites.

Future plans:

Add Configuration page containing following options:

• Add further configuration options as described here: http://www.erichynds.com/jquery/jquery-ui-multiselect-widget/
• Use Libraries API

Alternatives:

• http://drupal.org/project/jquery_ui_multiselect (You can find another List of alternatives and explanations here too, thank the maintainer)
• http://drupal.org/project/multiselect
• http://drupal.org/project/improved_multi_select
• http://drupal.org/project/jquery_multiselect
• http://drupal.org/project/fancy_multiselect
• http://drupal.org/project/chosen

Double encoding Problems? ("&" => "&"?)

Have a look here: https://github.com/ehynds/jquery-ui-multiselect-widget/issues/424 (This is a bug in the jquery.multiselect.js library file!)

Development proudly sponsored by German Drupal Friends & Companies:

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and
DROWL: Drupalbasierte Lösungen aus Ostwestfalen-Lippe (OWL), Germany (https://www.drowl.de)

Drupal 8 Version

Drupal 8 Version by joshirohit100 #2615260: Port "jQuery UI MultiSelect Widget" to Drupal 8