There has been a part of the Fez workflow that has been bugging me. The original page I made to select a record as part of a workflow used three drop down boxes with ajax behind them to select first the community, then the collection and then the record. The problem was that sometimes there are more than 300 items in a collection so the drop down boxes required a lot of scrolling if the ajax didn’t just timeout.

Today I made it so that you can type the title of the record you are after and it will populate a short list of candidates from which the user can select the record they want. I originally made it so that it showed a list of the record citations but this proved too slow. So it just lists the PIDs and titles of records that match the typed simple search terms.

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