Autocomplete - How to define DS

augustodelucena — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 21:26:01 GMT

Hi,I'm trying to define an autocomplete field which will be filled by few items. I've seen few related subjects guides/tutorials around and then I set this at share-config-custom:<field id="idrop_testauto" mandatory="false" read-only="false"> <control template="/org/alfresco/co

Re: Autocomplete - How to define DS

steven_okennedy — Thu, 03 Sep 2015 01:01:12 GMT

Hi augustodelucena,

What version of Alfresco are you using? Is the autocomplete.ftl you are referencing a standard component or a custom control you've added in?

Assuming that you're using a control that's built on the YUI2 Autocomplete and your ftl works in a similar fashion to the old control from the Forms FDK (e.g. like this https://code.google.com/p/alfresco-forms-service-examples/source/browse/trunk/share/source/web/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/site-webscripts/org/alfresco/components/form/controls/autocomplete.ftl?r=2 ), then the value you pass to the control-param ds needs to be a valid argument for the YAHOO.util.XHRDataSource constructor. This would be a url referencing a service that will return a JSON response in the format


{
  "results": 
  [
    {"value": "value1"},
    {"value": "value2"},
    {"value": "value3"}
  ]
}
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So you can simply create a new webscript (if you don't have one already) that will return a static list - or perhaps read a file to create the list - in the format above. You would then use the url of this webscript as the parameter to your ds param.

Regards

Steven

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