make search page useful for popup listings

Author: Richard Jones

templates/classic/html/issue.search.html

@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@
 <span metal:fill-slot="body_title" tal:omit-tag="python:1">Issue searching</span>
 <td class="content" metal:fill-slot="content">
 
-<form method="GET" tal:attributes="action request/classname">
+<form method="GET" name="itemSynopsis"
+      tal:attributes="action request/classname">
 
 <table class="form" tal:define="
    cols python:request.columns or 'id activity title status assignedto'.split();

templates/classic/html/page.html

@@ -115,11 +115,30 @@ <h2><span metal:define-slot="body_title">body title</span></h2>
 </html>
 </tal:block>
 
+<!--
+The following macros are intended to be used in search pages.
+
+The invoking context must define a "name" variable which names the
+property being searched.
+
+See issue.search.html in the classic template for examples.
+-->
 <td metal:define-macro="search_input">
   <input tal:attributes="value python:request.form.getvalue(name) or nothing;
                          name name">
 </td>
 
+<td metal:define-macro="search_popup">
+  <!-- 
+    context needs to specify the popup "columns" as a comma-separated
+    string (eg. "id,title" or "id,name,description") as well as name
+  -->
+  <input tal:attributes="value python:request.form.getvalue(name) or nothing;
+                         name name">
+  <span tal:replace="structure python:db.issue.classhelp(columns,
+                                      property=name)" />
+</td>
+
 <td metal:define-macro="search_select">
   <select tal:attributes="name name"
           tal:define="value python:request.form.getvalue(name)">