Ubercart

Good point, zmove. My only guess was that it was easier to prevent mistakes.

In any event, the only way to really address this atm is with hook_form_alter(). I don't have a snippet on hand, but you can increase the #delta value of that ordering element in the form array to get a wider range.

I'm not sure if you're suggesting that Drupal should have a textfield for weight, or that I should have a textfield instead of the long dropdown.

I would love to replace the long dropdown with a textfield for the attribute, if it could autocomplete with values from my option list. Is that possible with Ubercart?

Perhaps some details will help explain my situation, and maybe suggest a better solution... the attribute is the name of a congregation (church). There are more than 60 congregations in the district served by the Web site. If we use a plain text field, people will type in all kinds of things and we'll have to match them up manually with the congregations in our database. So currently the list looks something like this:

First Church, Iowa City, IA
Church of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, MN

the list has to be ordered by state and city so that people can find their churches, so if the values didn't have to be presentable, the easy solution would be something like

IA Iowa City First Church
MN Minneapolis Church of Minneapolis

That would cause the list to sort properly, but it would look terrible on nametags. So instead we're using the ordering field, with values from -10 to 24. If we could get an autocomplete field, then we someone could just type

First

and every First whatever would pop up. It would be slick.

Thanks in advance for any advice you can give!