Harvest, the time tracking and invoicing tool we use, just added a new filter mechanism to their report generator. While I appreciate the additional functionality, I was most impressed with their multi-select combobox. It looks like a normal text field, but once the field has focus you can select any option and it will be added into the field, click again and you can select another option, building up any number of options. The field just gets larger (more rows are added) when you add more options than can be displayed in a single row.
It is equally easy to remove items from the field by clicking the little ‘x’ next to each option.
Does anyone know if there is a JQuery control for this? That would be awesome. A Flex control like this would be nice too, just in case there are any motivated developers reading this (wink, wink)…
Update: Rajesh Rajappan provided a link to the JQuery control: http://loopj.com/jquery-tokeninput/. It has autocomplete with multi selection.
Update again: Harvest released this control called “Chosen’, it is available here: http://harvesthq.github.com/chosen/
Theresa Neil 