Easy way to add type-ahead to text fields in the Notes client
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Forgive me if this technique is just too blatantly obvious, but I almost never see it used and every time I use it the customer thinks it's cool, so here it is:
It's as easy as that: you now have a field that looks like any other text field, but supports type-ahead.
Forgive me if this technique is just too blatantly obvious, but I almost never see it used and every time I use it the customer thinks it's cool, so here it is:
- Make the text field a dialog list.
- Set the choice list (i.e. @DbColumn).
- Enable "Allow values not in list".
- Disable "Display entry helper button".
It's as easy as that: you now have a field that looks like any other text field, but supports type-ahead.
Comments
Now, if we can just get it to show a progressively filtered drop down while you're typing. And while we're wishing, how about showing even entries that only contain, and not necessarily start with, the typed string.
Posted by Kevin Pettitt At 02:35:26 PM On 03/12/2009 | - Website - |
Posted by Tim Tripcony At 03:08:37 PM On 03/12/2009 | - Website - |