Combobox to Autocomplete

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12. Mai 2012 01:20

I am trying to create a workflow that uses a combobox form that filters into an autocomplete. Is this possible?

Thanks, Craig

 

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  Permanently deleted user

  12. Mai 2012 01:34

  Hi Craig,

        This is not possible. You can go from an autocomplete to a ListBox/ComboBox but not the other way around.

        Tell me a little bit more about your use-case. Sometimes there is an alternative or just knowing what people are trying to accomplish helps us schedule new features.

  Cheers,

  Christian.

   

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  Permanently deleted user

  12. Mai 2012 02:34

  Thank You Christian,

  What I am trying to do is search for an address. Our county has 8 lower tier municipalities.  I would like to to use a ComboBox to first select a municipality, and then use that selected municipality to filter the road names in an AutoCompleteBox.   

  I could use a second ComboBox for the road names, but have two issues.

  1. The list is rather large. 

  2. In some cases people will want to search for an address with out knowing the municipality.  I would also like them to be able to search the entire county not just the local municipalities. I am not sure how to accomplish this within a ComboBox? ie. If the box is blank (OR set to a value that is blank OR set to some kind of default value) do not apply the filter and show all roads.

  Any Suggestions would be great.

  Many Thanks

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  Permanently deleted user

  12. Mai 2012 04:00

  Hi Craig,

       Thanks for the information. We've considered adding the possibility to cascade into an autocomplete before and the use case you've describe is exactly what we envisioned it would do. One of the main reason we didn't do it at the time was the syntax that someone would have to use: {0} meaning the text being typed in the autocomplete and {1} being the value from the parent control. This can be confusing because in all other cases {0} is the value from the parent. So you see the conundrum.

       I think I'll escalate this feature in our priority list. But unfortunately in the mean time the only solution would be to use 2 forms. The first one is selecting the municipality and the second one is the autocomplete. Using the new feature of Essentials 3.9 (forms runtime modifications), you could modify the query for the autocomplete on the server in between forms 1 and 2.

  Cheers,

  Christian.

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