ContactAutoCompleter finally added.

Bounty added:

http://horde.org/bounties/details.php#kronolith_attendee_autoexpand

Any update on this?

I'll just put in a plug that this is actually a pretty big thing.  I 
watched a user try to add multiple attendees and she expected the 
field where addresses were entered to behave like IMP's address 
expansion and addition capabilities.



Issue 1:  If using the address book to look up entries, after all the 
entries have been selected, those entries should go directly to the 
attendees screen.  A user should not have to select addresses, submit 
to populate another form field, and then submit that field to populate 
attendees.



Issue 2:  Tab auto-expansion, an Address Book icon, and an Expand 
Names icon provides a familiar environment for a user to find addresses.



Issue 3:  The "Dismiss" button is unintuitively named.  Dismiss almost 
has a connotation of Cancel.  A better setup would be to have a Cancel 
button and a Save Attendees button.

Changing to reflect better ideas: should use an icon and match the 
address expansion options available in IMP (auto-expand, expand names, 
etc.).

Forgot to add - I think using an icon would be a good idea as well.   
Then you start to introduce a consistency across all your 
applications.  They all start to behave the same way.  When you get to 
a screen where you want to pick people, you know that if you Tab, 
you'll autoexpand for addresses (with the same caveat that you have to 
pick a unique enough portion of the name to get a single result).   
When you see an address book icon, you know you can do at will 
searches.  When there are consistent ways of doing things, users tend 
to pick up on how to do things, better.

I think thats a good change.  It helps reduce the ambiguity of which 
button to click.



We're still hitting issues with using this screen, because people are 
assuming that it works kid of like the Mail composition screen - enter 
a name or a part of a name and you'll end up with the full name and 
address (which incidentally, would not be a bad feature to add :)

How about what I just committed? It spaces the buttons vertically; the 
addressbook button looked a little lost with your original patch. If 
this causes the same confusion, I'd recommend an icon for the address 
book like IMP has, instead of a button - that should help 
differentiate them.

During some beta testing and training modules development for a Horde 
rollout, there was some confusion about how to properly add attendees 
for checking availability.  What we discovered was that users were 
assuming that the "Add people from my addressbook" would expand 
whatever was typed in the "Add attendees" field.  So they'd type a 
first name, click on the button, and not finding the entry there, do a 
search.  They'd find their desired user and add them, but the "Add 
attendees" field also contained their previous shortened name that 
they had typed.    Then when they clicked the "Add these people" 
button, the real user and a bogus user would be added.



What this patch does is simple.  It attempts to introduce some 
segregation between the "Add attendees" field, where users must be 
entered exactly, and the "Add people from my Address Book".  In the 
logical order of things, you would likely first add people from an 
addressbook, then include any manual additions, then add the list to 
the overall attendees list.  It should help reduce confusion between 
what the two "Add" buttons do.  One invokes the addressbook, the other 
invokes adding attendees to the list up top.  Putting them 
side-by-side caused confusion with our users.  Visually separating 
them helped our users understand how to add attendees.