SQLFORM.widgets.autocomplete has the parameter: at_beginning that you can set to False
https://web2py.readthedocs.io/en/latest/_modules/gluon/sqlhtml.html#AutocompleteWidget widget = SQLFORM.widgets.autocomplete(request, ..., at_beginning=False, ....) On September 15, 2018 at 10:15:25 PM, Anders Meyer ([email protected]) wrote: Hello- I'm using the autocomplete widget to make sure that the user chooses among names in a database (containing about 300 entries). Right now, the autocomplete only matches from the beginning of the word, but I need it to be able to match from any position in the word, similar to what jquery allows. Any suggestions for how to do this? Many thanks! -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

