[JIRA] Commented: (EDS-49) Config to start with dropdown list

[Lukas Haemmerle (JIRA)]

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Lukas Haemmerle commented on EDS-49:
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Why not introducing a config option (e.g. ) with values "list", "search" or "auto" (default) where the default would be to display the IdPs as list by automatically if the number of IdPs is below 12 (or whatever number you like) and otherwise by default show the search interface.

> Config to start with dropdown list
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>                 Key: EDS-49
>                 URL: https://issues.shibboleth.net/jira/browse/EDS-49
>             Project: Embedded Discovery Service
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Peter Schober
>            Assignee: Rod Widdowson
>            Priority: Minor
>   Original Estimate: 1 hour
>  Remaining Estimate: 1 hour
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> Some people using the EDS with a couple of institutions asked whether it could be configured to start with the dropdown list, instead of starting with the ajax-ish input  field and requiring an additonal click to change to dropdown (and then another to open the dropdown, of course).
> Actually, given that they only support a handful of IdPs they'd probably be served better by having the complete list of IdPs shown right away (as in {{<ul><li>IdP A</li><li>IdP B</li></ul>}} or something, pardon my oldschool HTML).
> Of course for such simple cases you could always hand-craft the session initiator links and forgo using the EDS completely. But you'd lose some of the more "dynamic" features like updated display names or the IdP getting blacklisted in the SP (or getting removed from federation metadata).
> I'd imagine the first being a rather simple new config option, the latter a wishlist item that could make the EDS more useful in specific cases, at the cost of not only doing what is considered Best Current Practice in IdP discovery (it would still do that by default, though).
> Happy to discuss on dev, if preferred.

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