Backups: Servers to save new select

[iliajie]

Jamie, I would like to suggest to revert the change for showing double multi-selects for choosing virtual servers to backup. It just looks much more confusing then the old single multi-select!

Before:

Now:

[jcameron]

The old one didn't work well for huge lists of domains though - it was basically impossible to see which ones were selected.

[iliajie]

We could use Select2 multi select type?

[jcameron]

What does that look like?

[iliajie]

Like this, e.g.:

[jcameron]

Oh that looks nice ... is that something browsers support natively though?

[iliajie]

No, browser's don't support it natively (yet).

I can make it work this way for Authentic theme then .. okay .. ?

[jcameron]

Sure, that would be cool! As long as ui_multi_select behaves exactly the same to CGI scripts.

[iliajie]

I'm not inclined (at the moment) to change ui_multi_select in UI lib, as it has quite a lot of different application cases. I was thinking to do some magic in UI and just to make it work this way specifically for Backup Virtual Server page, and maybe for a few other pages. But I will have a deeper look as I finish working on Virtualmin improvements I mentioned in the chat...

[jcameron]

Oh no, definitely don't do that kind of magic! If we want a different kind of UI for selecting domains, it should be implemented as a new function ..

[iliajie]

Oh, making a new function would work. I will do that!

[marclaporte]

FYI, Tiki is a happy user of Select2 https://doc.tiki.org/Select2