Hi Dan,
Great work on this plugin mod. I've got it integrated into a Sales Order
application I've developed.
However, I'm still having a few quirks such as the autocomplete only showing
matches when the {minChars} # of characters is input. Any more or less, and
it disappears. I think I've now tried about 57 different combinations of
settings, and I can't get it to work like your demo (keep typing and the
selections limit themselves).
To that end, do you have any documentation that might help?
Thanks,
________
SEAN O
Dan G. Switzer, II wrote:
>
> Sean,
>
>>Dan, this looks great. I like the Ajax/array flexibility.
>>
>>Do you have some sample backend code that populates the ajax listbox?
(e.g.
>>your autocomplete.cfm)
>
> Here's the URL to the AJAX template:
>
> http://www.pengoworks.com/workshop/jquery/autocomplete_ajax.cfm?q=sp
>
> That currently returns:
>
> Sparta|896
> Spencer|897
> Spencerville|898
> Spring Valley|899
> Springboro|900
> Springfield|901
>
> The code basically expects a pipe delimited list of options separated by
> new
> lines. The pipe delimited list is then split into an array.
>
>>Also, how do you match content in the middle of a string? (typing 'rica'
>>will bring up 'Africa') I haven't had much luck with matchSubset or
>>matchContains...
>
> Well, the matchSubset actually is a cache checking option. It's designed
> to
> expand the cache search.
>
> The matchContains is what you want to set to 1. This should make sure the
> JS
> portion of the code actually searches for the matches anywhere in the
> string.
>
> On top of that, your AJAX page also needs to return matches for both
> "exact"
> (matches at the start of the string) and "contain" (matches anywhere in
> the
> string.)
>
> The way I handle this is to provide "exact" returns first and then
> "contain"
> matches second.
>
> My SQL would look something like:
>
> select
> 1 as ExactMatch, UserId, Name
> from
> User
> where
> Name like 'Dan%'
>
> union
>
> select
> 0 as ExactMatch, UserId, Name
> from
> User
> where
> UserId not in (
> select
> UserId
> from
> User
> where
> Name like 'Dan%'
> )
> and
> Name like '%Dan%'
>
>
> order by
> ExactMatch desc, Name asc
>
> This allows me to show exact/best matches at top and other interesting
> matches at the bottom. The code that I'm using needed to allow users to
> search by either last name or first name. For users who type the last name
> in first (which is the way the results are returned) then those exact
> matches appear right at top.
>
> I'll try to actually write some documentation when I get a chance. I was
> trying to find Dylan's original post to the mailing list where he
> documented
> the plug-in, but I couldn't find it when I went back to look for it. It
> almost looked like the post was archived.
>
> -Dan
>
>
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