Drop down auto-complete

[Former Member]

hi

Is there a way to create a dropdown auto-complete list in abab webdynpro?

i have a table in my application, one of the columns is city_name and i want the user to select cities from the dropdown list but it will get alot of values thats why i wont to add the ability of auto-complete to make it easier (the values to the list will come from a custom table of citys T5J63)

thanks

Ami

[amy_king · Accepted solution]

Hi Ami,

You should be able to rely solely on the browser's functionality to achieve this. Both Firefox and Internet Explorer (and likely other browsers) automatically scroll through a dropdown list to the first matching value as the user types.

Let's say a dropdown list has an alphabetic list of US states...

Alabama

Arkansas

Maine

Massachusetts

New Mexico

New York

...etc...

If a user places their cursor on the dropdown list field and types "Ma" into their keyboard, the dropdown list will automatically scroll to Maine, since that is the first entry that matches "Ma".

Cheers,

Amy

[Former Member]

in webdynpro in inputfield ui elment property just checking SUGGESTVALUE property you will get auto complete it will search on basis of which  DDIC search help is assign to attribute which is bound with input field.

this is available  enh2 or NTW 7.2  and above version.

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[former_member189631]

Ami,

There is no standard UI exist for the Auto complete functionality. However, you can go with the workaround as suggested above.

Ram

[vineetrrakesh]

Hi Ami,

I don't think there is anything like Auto-Complete for Drop-Downs in WebDynpro ABAP, but you can realize this functionality with an input field with Value suggestion. It will look like below

Hope this might help.

Regards

Vineet

[Former Member]

Hi

is there any example how to create it ?

[Former Member]

use below link

http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-33803

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