SelectOtherItem's picklist fails to show other when configured with an optionDataSource

[eschwegs]

I'm have a custom field for a related datasource that I'm attempting to use listGrid.setEditorCustomizer(...) to construct an editor for. I want the functionality of a SelectItem that allows the user to create a non existent value if the pickList does not contain it. A SelectOtherItem configure with an OptionDataSource seems like the logical widget for the job. However, the pickList's other option disappears when configured that way.

Here is a smartgwt/showcase/#select_other_combobox_category mod that shows the issue:

        final DynamicForm form = new DynamicForm();  
        form.setWidth(300);  

        SelectOtherItem selectOtherItem = new SelectOtherItem();  
        selectOtherItem.setOtherTitle("Other..");  
        selectOtherItem.setOtherValue("OtherVal");  
        selectOtherItem.setTitle("Units");  
        // configure the values with an optionDataSource instead
        //selectOtherItem.setValueMap("Ea", "Pkt", "Bag", "Ctn");  
        selectOtherItem.setValueField("BenchName");
        selectOtherItem.setOptionDataSource(DataSource.get("Test_Bench"));

        form.setFields(selectOtherItem);

SmartClient Version: v11.1p_2018-07-19/PowerEdition Deployment (built 2018-07-19) using Chrome

[Isomorphic]

This is a known and documented limitation, but due to a glitch in some of our tools, the docs aren’t appearing as intended. We’ll fix that, but in the meantime, the selectItem.specialValues feature provides a way to implement something similar to SelectOtherItem, but with a UI more appropriate to optionDataSource (special values can appear *on top*), as well as the ability to add an “other” value that involved a custom form or other UI beyond a simple dialog.

[eschwegs]

Thanks, I'll look at that.