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Share : autocomplete in datalists

philippe — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 21:44:05 GMT

Hello,I have tried the autocomplete control in share. It works well when I edit entities from the "Edit Metadata" page.But when I use it in DataList, it doesn't work (when I add a new row).It seems that the contructor YAHOO.widget.AutoComplete doesn't find the input controls, the call YAHOO.util.Dom

Re: Share : autocomplete in datalists

smicyk — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 22:47:06 GMT

Hi,

I have similar issue when using workflows task dialogs. The control for autocomplete doesn't exists so function return. My solution is to change implementation of autocomplete.ftl so that code of autocomplete is loaded when element is ready. It looks like:


<script type="text/javascript">//<![CDATA[
(function()
{
   var element = new YAHOO.util.Element("${fieldHtmlId}");
   
   element.on('contentReady', function() {
      // Use an XHRDataSource
      var oDS = new YAHOO.util.XHRDataSource("${url.context}${ds}");
   
         // Set the responseType
         oDS.responseType = YAHOO.util.XHRDataSource.TYPE_JSON;
   
         // Define the schema of the JSON results
         oDS.responseSchema = 
         {
            resultsList : "result",
            fields : ["value"]
         };
   
         // Instantiate the AutoComplete
         var oAC = new YAHOO.widget.AutoComplete("${fieldHtmlId}", "${fieldHtmlId}-container", oDS);
   
         // Throttle requests sent
         oAC.queryDelay = .5;
   
         // The webservice needs additional parameters
         oAC.generateRequest = function(sQuery) 
         {
            <#if ds?contains("?")>
               return "&q=" + sQuery;
            <#else>
               return "?q=" + sQuery;
            </#if>
         };
   
         return {
            oDS: oDS,
            oAC: oAC
         };   
   });
})();
//]]></script>
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I don't know if it is best solution but it works quite good.

Thanks
smicyk

Re: Share : autocomplete in datalists

flopez — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 12:45:40 GMT

Hello Phillipe! did you find a solution for this? would you mind to share how to make the autocomplete feature work? I'm working on this exact same functionality but can't get it to work. any info would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

Re: Share : autocomplete in datalists

philippe — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 09:21:35 GMT

Hello,

You can download an autocomplete control that works with datalist on our website: http://www.becpg.net/contribs

Best regards.

Re: Share : autocomplete in datalists

applelam — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 10:34:31 GMT

Hello Philippe,

Can you autocomplete form creator… like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9V__nNWJb0
using becpg?