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lancemay

Multi-column Autocomplete?

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in Developing jQuery UI • 13 years ago

I've been working a tabular data option into the 1.8 Autocomplete code, and am curious if this could be something to add officially.

I'm sure that I'm not the best JavaScript coder out there, but this seems like a pretty big feature that I would love to contribute.

So far, I have extended the options to include "columns" to define an array of your headings and "dataColumns" as an array of expected JSON fields in the result set.

I will be wrapping up with this soon, and was just curious if this would be something the team would consider rolling in.

Thanks much in advance.

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joern.zae..

Re: Multi-column Autocomplete?

13 years ago

Coud you provide a description or example of what a multi-column autocomplete actually is? I have no idea.

Jörn Zaefferer

lancemay

Re: Re: Multi-column Autocomplete?

13 years ago

What I mean is to have tabular data as opposed to a single data-point for the output. For example (making up data, of course):

Currently, no matter how you slice it, if you type "ab" you'll get a list of...

"Abacas"
"Abate"
"Abbrv."

With a multi-column option, you could type "ch" and get...

"Chris A. | (656) 573-7834 | Blue"
"Christine B. | (656) 458-9823 | Purple"
"Charisma C. | (656) 645-7823 | Green"

Now yes, you can say that you can kick that data out now, and you would be right. However, there is currently no way to do that with truly tabular data (formatting-wise). If my example didn't quite make sense, please click the link below, then click the "First Experience". The "Supplier" box is a multi-column, as I am referring.

http://live.intersoftpt.com/Default.aspx?p=/WebCombo

Thanks again for taking the time to read this.

joern.zae..

Re: Multi-column Autocomplete?

13 years ago

Talked with Scott González about this, and we both think that this is quite a bit outside the scope of jQuery UI. We'd have to make some pretty heavy modifications to the underlying menu widget to enable building that from a table and handling all the interactions.

lancemay

Re: Re: Multi-column Autocomplete?

13 years ago

Well, then I thank you for taking the time to look it over and let me know. I just thought I'd offer the work I'd already done. Thanks again!

roman.chy..

Re: Re: Multi-column Autocomplete?

12 years ago

I have recently had a similar problem - could this sort of thing be solved by flexible menu implementation inside the autocomplete plugin? Ie. for anyone who can't live with the default Menu implementation, there would be option to supply special menu implementation widget?

See: http://forum.jquery.com/topic/enhanced-autocomplete-interest-in-getting-this-into-jqueryui