Support IDs instead of names

[denen99]

hi,

Is there a way to support IDs when submitting the form instead of the names? This would require returning a map of elements in the form of id/name to the autocomplete plugin, name for the end-user and ID for what gets submitted via the form.

Is this possible?

[denen99]

Just checking in, is this possible ?

[ioncache]

Hey Adam,

Sorry for the late reply.

Right now there isn't a way to do this easily.

You might be able to cobble something together using the updateData options and stuff in a list of the ids you want in there when doing the submit using an event.

What would be the ideal thing here for you? A flag to submit the ID of each tag instead of the Value of each tag? This would require some additional support as right now the tags don't have IDs by default, so support would be needed to accept key/value pairs when instantiating the IDs.

Do you have any sort of example you could show me where you would want to use this?? I might be able to figure something out for you int he meantime.

[denen99]

No worries, I know that someone did this with typeahead , see here https://github.com/tcrosen/twitter-bootstrap-typeahead. Basically this enables you to load a json payload of ID/NAME and display NAME for autocomplete but use ID in the form submit.

[pauletienney]

I +1 this request. It would be great.