"Baden, Grand-duchy of" is what now? [solved]

I'm a little bit confused.

My German Empire coins from Baden are no longer listed under German States in the Your Coins section dropdown. Instead, "Baden, Grand-duchy of" is now listed as a separate entry. Meanwhile, Prussia, which is another German state issuing coins in the same era, with the same reverses, is still listed under German States.

Isn't Baden still a German State?

Your feedback would be most valued as a means of understanding how I'm going to use Numista in future.

They are in the middle of beeing given the rank of 'section' but when you look at the country list you will notice they are just at the beginning of the F states, so Prussia will stay under the old German states a bit longer. At the end all the states will have their own link and section-hood but of course they are still German states.

Exactly said. Creation of these separate entities takes times, because it includes creation of section itself, naming a referee, moving/correcting the currency and of course, moving all the coins.

Ah! Thank you, gentlepeople. I understand. :-)

I do have one thought on this, however. I've been collecting coins for 33 years and every reference work I've ever used groups the German States into one category. It will be an interesting change of mindset for me to see them handled as different entities and I don't have a problem with this in itself. It seems logical and it is consistent with other currency groupings. I might not be entirely comfortable with it, but I look forward to see how it works out.

The Your Coins dropdown, is becoming overloaded. It is starting to take quite a bit of time to find the "country" that I am trying to select, particularly on the mobile version of the site. This impacts the usability of Numista, particularly when I am visiting markets and trying to check what I have in my collection quickly.

One possible solution to this would be to change the dropdown, either splitting it into two controls that allow the selection of countries first, and then a section if appropriate, or to a control that allows you to type in a fragment of a section name, using that to filter the sections that are available for selection. (There is a JavaScript thing called Chosen.js that does this rather well and, if I remember correctly, even supports subsections within the select that could be used for countries and sections.)

I hope this is helpful, even though the ideas are only very rough.

Numista already uses jQuery, so why not use select2? It supports optgroups, will give you suggestions as you type and should work on mobile devices.

https://select2.github.io/examples.html

Quote: "andrewdotcoza"...splitting it into two controls that allow the selection of countries first, and then a section if appropriate...

This solution is already on the agenda of the next admin meeting for discussion

Quote: "Houseofham"​Numista already uses jQuery, so why not use select2? It supports optgroups, will give you suggestions as you type and should work on mobile devices.
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​https://select2.github.io/examples.html
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​It looks very good. Too bad it doesn't support several levels of nesting. It can support German states inside Germany, but not again Baden inside German states.

Quote: "Xavier"​

Quote: "Houseofham"​Numista already uses jQuery, so why not use select2? It supports optgroups, will give you suggestions as you type and should work on mobile devices.
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​​https://select2.github.io/examples.html
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​​It looks very good. Too bad it doesn't support several levels of nesting. It can support German states inside Germany, but not again Baden inside German states.

Select2 doesn't support nested optgroups through HTML because HTML itself doesn't allow nesting them, but if you load options from javascript (or AJAX), it's possible.

https://jsfiddle.net/houseofham/h3yzukya/

You can also customize it with a custom formatter, if generating a flat list of options is easier for you: https://jsfiddle.net/houseofham/h3yzukya/3/

Thanks for your help HoH! I just implemented it.
Let me know if you encounter any difficulty to select a country or section.
Eventually I didn't use select2's nesting, because it doesn't allow to select an element that has children (ref), but a bit of styling made the job.

By the way, following the original question ("Baden, Grand-duchy of" is what now?), would it make things easier/clearer to call it an "issuer" instead of a "section"? The term appears especially in the stats of "Your coins" page.

Happy to help

1. Not that it makes any practical difference, but
var flagHTML = '<span class="sprite s' + item.id + '" title="Panama"></span>';
should probably be
var flagHTML = '<span class="sprite s' + item.id + '" title="' + item.text + '"></span>';

2. Could you make it a little bit wider, so there is no wrapping when you get to countries/sections with long names or level 2+ entries? Or, is that going to make it too wide for mobile devices?

Quote: "Xavier"​By the way, following the original question ("Baden, Grand-duchy of" is what now?), would it make things easier/clearer to call it an "issuer" instead of a "section"? The term appears especially in the stats of "Your coins" page.

​I think that's a good idea. The word "Section" is rather meaningless. Much more understandable would be "Coin issuing authority/entity" or if that's too long "Issuer" in short.

I think the new dropdown is fantastic! It is a great improvement to Numista and solves the complexity problem perfectly.

Hello, I just made some adjustments:

• Fix flag title
  
• Remove flags where not applicable
  
• Enlarge the select box slightly
  
• Change "sections" into "issuers"
  

The flags for Italian states (and German states) should not be removed. We have a thread for Italian states flags (https://en.numista.com/forum/topic61895.html) and German states flags (https://en.numista.com/forum/topic62020.html).

Sure. Flags are removed only when there is no flag defined. If I upload a flag, it will appear, no worry