Dropdown menu or Typing

[The Admin]

When you need to enter a horse name, in Hypo-mating or booking, we give you an intelligent text box and you begin to type the horse's name and it give you a list of matching horse name. This is because we don't want you to have to enter a horse id number, and because we have so many horses, a dropdown menu would be impractical.

In contrast, when you compose a private message, choose an assistant or transfer games points to a player, we give you two dropdown menus - the first are your buddies, and the second is everyone.

The question...
When selecting a player, would you prefer to have an intelligent text box (like with hypo and booking horses), or the dropdowns like we have now?

Thanks for your thoughts.

[Dan Kauffman]

Probably the intelligent text box, but I don't have a significant preference.

[Darcy McBride]

I actually have no preference for one over the other.

[Darcy McBride]

I actually have no preference for one over the other.

[Ali Hedgestone]

The drop downs are nice because sometimes between going "oh! I need to send so-and-so a message" and creating the message I forget who I'm sending it to!

[Regina Moore]

Intelligent text box

[Carole Hanson]

I’d prefer intelligent text box too!

[Ash Tarasin]

Intelligent text box
Editing this post to say that I'm good with either, only slightly in favour of the text box.

[Cleo Patra]

Definitely the intelligent box for smaller screens. Makes no difference on my computer.

[Lori Hamill]

What Cleo said. On my phone it would definitely be easier to have the intelligent box, on my computer it doesn't matter.

[Laura Smith]

Ditto Lori. On my computer I can start typing and have the drop down auto-scroll to the section I need, but on my phone that doesn't happen, so count me in for intelligent text box.

[The Admin]

Thanks for your feedback. All the places where you choose a player's name have been changed to the intelligent text box.

As a bonus, the Owner, Breeder and Horse fields on the search page are also intelligent now.

[Stormy Peak]

I don't like the new format. I liked being able to see the my buddies list and the players list and just using a mouse to select.

Stormy

[Carole Hanson]

Thanks for your feedback. All the places where you choose a player's name have been changed to the intelligent text box.

As a bonus, the Owner, Breeder and Horse fields on the search page are also intelligent now.

Ooh thank you so much that’s a great little bonus!