Examples of good UI for selecting multiple records

Question

I\'m currently revisiting an area of my Windows-based software and looking at changing the relationship from 1->M to M->M. As a result, I need to adjust the UI to accommodate se

Answer 1

I'd suggest not having to click add more to be able to search. The warning at the right is nice, but IMHO it should only say the search displays results as the user types.

Sorting a column (maybe along with the search) would also be a nice functionality. I'd suggesting it being done by clicking on the header of the table, with some icon indicating whether the sort is ascending or descending.

I'd suggest also the search to do an approximate string matching in case there are no or few results. It is so annoying not being able to find something you don't remember exactly.

Finally, for testing the first impression (though not the functionality itself), I'd suggest uploading it to the 5 second test and see what you get.