- Issue created by @coaston
- 🇩🇪Germany jurgenhaas Gottmadingen
This is currently not yet possible. However, it has been raised in a different context recently, and we may well add something in the future. It's important to recognize the difference that events for are being dispatched in the backend, so that ECA can subscribe to them and take some action. What this issue is all about, are events that occur in the frontend. So, what may be an extension to ECA at some point is a framework that allows to recognize frontend-events and dispatch a backend event from them. This will then also require a framework to allow the backend to trigger some actions in the frontend as a response to such events. Maybe the already existing ajax commands are sufficient for that.
Not really related, but since you also raised that question, the "Event-based selection with ECA" is an event that gets dispatched during auto-complete activity, where an entity reference field in the frontend requests a list of matching entities from the backend. With that event, ECA can hook into that process and alter the result.
- 🇸🇰Slovakia coaston
Thank you for your answer. I hope one day there will be such feature available as it seems i am not the only one who would love to use sort of "dependent field".
- 🇩🇪Germany jurgenhaas Gottmadingen
Progress so far is that we're getting ready for ECA 2.0 next week, so that new features will be going into the 2.1 branch. That's what today's update of this issue was about.
When we will get into implementing new features depends on a lot of things, e.g. how important is it to how many users, is there any funding, do we have resources who are willing to work on this on their own time, etc.
