# Entity-Select Views

Purpose of these views are to have a simple way to include a select field into various forms & flows allowing the user to select an entry from a list of entities (whether it be Patients, Cases, Operating Rooms, etc).

### Features

- Should cache data so every subsequent instance of view class will not need to re-fetch data
  - If the view is instantiated and data has not previously been fetched, will need to fetch and prevent rendering until data is returned
  - Should accept an option to force a re-fresh of the cached data?
- Should facilitate passing options to bootstrap-select plugin
- Should allow pre-selection of value(s)
- Should be able to return currently selected value(s)
- Should be able to clear selected value(s)

### Abstract Configuration

- Provide a collection class to utilize
- Provide properties/methods for generating option labels & values
- Filtering?
- Sorting?