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Inappropriate display of the combobox field
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MW 1.35.1 / SMW 3.2.2 / PF 5.1

When you enter a combobox field, the box used to update the value is displayed below the initial field. When you have another field below the combobox field, it seems you're updating this second field:

comboboxfieldissue.jpg (164×259 px, 12 KB)

Is it not possible to update the value on the line where the field is initially displayed ?

Thanks!

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It's a shame. Thanks anyway for your reply.

I can't see any way to "improve" this behavior, other than making the fields be spaced farther apart.

OK, thank you anyway for thinking of a solution. The previous behavior was better, though. I really don't understand what the Select2 upgrade improved. Sorry to say that but tokens, combobox, datetimepicker input types... seem regressions to me. :-/

Do you mean that these input types are behaving worse than they did before, or that combobox and tokens are worse than the old "text with autocomplete" and "textarea with autocomplete"? Because as far as I remember, the combobox input always had that dropdown element...

First option : they are behaving worse.

For combobox, the presentation was less confusing : the link to the initial (top) box of the whole drop-down list was more obvious.
Old combobox :

previousCombobox.jpg (105×481 px, 10 KB)

For its part, text with autocomplete was also doing the same kind of job very well.

Datetimepicker : impossible now to type directly a date (dd/mm/yyyy) and a time (hh:mm) + the first day is necessarily Sunday (even if MediaWiki:Pf-datepicker-firstdayofweek is set to 1).

The change of a value in a tokens field was more logical.