gregbell/active_admin — Issue #652: More sophisticated UI than select for large many-many relationships
Author: davidw
Created: 2011-10-20 12:39:49+00:00
State: open

In situations where you have, say, a document that belongs to a user, and the system has many users, html's "select" no longer works very well to select the other model (user, in this case) to associate with. A more sophisticated UI allowing a basic search would be wonderful. I would envision something like a popup that lets you filter based on various attributes of the other model, and then select from amongst the possibilities.

Without something like this, active admin becomes progressively less useful for systems with more than about 100 A's connected to 100 B's, which is a pity, because otherwise it's a very fine system.