[question] - How to enable multiple select in dropdown for autocomplete_light.MultipleChoiceField

[sushovan23]

Hi, I'm using autocomplete_light.MultipleChoiceField for multiple choice field. I'm able to get dropdown populated with values and for each value i need to enter the text and select values. If I need to select 10 values from the drop down i need to type 10 times. Is there a way to enable/allow multiple select from download so that user needn't type in the regex in search field 10 times?

class HostGroupModelForm( autocomplete_light.ModelForm ): hosts=autocomplete_light.MultipleChoiceField('HostAutocomplete')

class HostAutocomplete( autocomplete_light.AutocompleteModelBase ): search_fields = [ 'hostname' ] limit_choices = 75 choices = Host.objects.all()

[jpic]

In DAL v3, you could probably do that with select:closing DOM event.

[sushovan23]

How can it be achieved in 2.2.6?

[sushovan23]

It would be good if user can select multiple items from dropdown by pressing control key. Is there a way to achieve this?

[jpic]

There's always a way ;) Just override the right function in the script.

[brenramz]

Is there any update of this? In 3.5.1

[mpochron]

Example:

class XXXForm(ModelForm):

  xxxxuser = MultipleChoiceField(
    choices=[],
    widget= autocomplete.ListSelect2(
      url='user_autocomplete', 
      attrs={
        'data-html': True , 
        'data-placeholder': 'Find user',
        'multiple': True
      }
    )
  )

[hammadarshad1]

Is there a way to select one element multiple times from dropdown?