possibly add additional institution field to authorship form to help autocomplete

[mdlincoln]

The javascript here is already rather fiddly (this is the kind of interaction that is least friendly to a traditional html FORM workflow) but I'll take a look to see how difficult it would be

[scottbot]

The solution you came up with is clever, but I think dangerous. Too easy to accidentally pick an institution without picking an affiliation, and saving with nothing there. If you keep it this way, it should not let you save and offer a big scary error if an institution is picked but an affiliation isn't.

[mdlincoln]

big scary error has been added

[scottbot]

One more design element would be useful here: perhaps a greyed box around the institution input section, to make it clear it is not part of data entry. It can look similar to the grey boxes Heidi is suggesting to separate entities.