Excellent, your trick worked. And with regards to a). Well, it would help if my lookup.adp would actually do the noquoting :).
So, now I have a page which supports what you did. Sadly I wanted to integrate it into the main search page for contacts and get these JS errors:
form has no properties
prototype.js (line 119)
anonymousprototype.js (line 119)
anonymousprototype.js (line 117)
In this ad_form generated form:
<form name="search" method="GET"
action="/intranet/contacts/"><input type="hidden" name="form:mode" value="edit" />
<input type="hidden" name="form:id" value="search" />
<!-- Form elements -->
<input type="hidden" name="__confirmed_p" value="0" /><input type="hidden" name="__refreshing_p" value="0" /><input type="hidden" name="__submit_button_name" value="" /><input type="hidden" name="__submit_button_value" value="" /><input type="hidden" name="orderby" value="first_names,asc" /><input type="hidden" name="page_size" value="1" /><input type="hidden" name="format" value="normal" /><input type="hidden" name="extended_columns" value="" />
<span class="form-widget">
<select name="search_id" onChange="javascript:acs_FormRefresh('search')">
<option value="" selected="selected">All Contacts</option>
</select>
</span>
<span class="form-widget">
<input type="text" name="query" value="" maxlength="255" autocomplete="off" onKeyUp="new Ajax.Updater ('results_box','lookup',{asynchronous:true,method:'post',parameters:Form.serialize('search')}); document.getElementById('results_box').style.visibility='visible';" size="20" />
</span>
<span class="form-element">
<input type="submit" name="save" value="Search" />
</span>
<span class="form-label">
<span style="font-size: smaller;">Results 136 </span>
</span>
<span class="form-widget">
<input type="hidden" name="results_count" />
</span>
</form>
Whereas the following form works like a charm:
<form id="searchform" method="post" action="/intranet/contacts/">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td>
<input type="text" name="query" id="query" onKeyUp="new Ajax.Updater ('results_box','test/lookup',{asynchronous:true,method:'post',parameters:Form.serialize('searchform')}); document.getElementById('results_box').style.visibility='visible';" autocomplete="off" value="" />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<div id="results_box"></div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
