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Can auto-suggest be used for TextArea field?

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    Can auto-suggest be used for TextArea field?

    I have been using auto-suggest for textbox field with success. However, once I changed the field to TextArea, Alpha5 complaint that my "lookup definition is incomplete". I double checked all the setting to be the same as I had with TextBox. What else do I need to do? Thanks for any suggestion in advance.
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    Re: Can auto-suggest be used for TextArea field?

    Edwin,

    Why do you want to use a Text Area with auto complete? I think you probably cannot, but if we know more about your goal, there might be something else you can do.
    Wendy Welton
    Architect
    past & future Alphaholic - deliberately falling off the wagon!

    http://www.artformhomeplans.com/

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      #3
      Re: Can auto-suggest be used for TextArea field?

      Wendy,

      That is because the text box field is of fixed width (set by 'size'), while the content from the auto-suggest is of unknown size. When the content is larger than the width of the textbox, some content is cut off.
      TextArea will wrap the content to the next line and give me the fixed width I wanted.

      However, if auto-suggest is not designed to work with TextArea, perhaps there is a way to make the TextBox width 'liquid' to adjust to the content size?

      Thanks!

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        Re: Can auto-suggest be used for TextArea field?

        I believe Wendy is correct. In a text box, you can set not only the length/width (size) of the box but you can also set the number of characters the box will hold. The Text area is not designed for a lookup or auto suggest. It's the web version of a memo field and why would you want a lookup in that type of field? A lookup is for looking up a value, not a long character string. Clarify what it is you would like to accomplish.

        kenn
        TYVM :) kenn

        Knowing what you can achieve will not become reality until you imagine and explore.

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          #5
          Re: Can auto-suggest be used for TextArea field?

          Kenn,

          In this particular case, the lookup is acutally a rather lengthly description of an activity, not a value, as such, it can be long, and I don't have that much screen real estate (width) to allocate to it, so I need word wrap. Since textbox cannot word wrap (can it?), I have to settle for TextArea. Auto-suggest actually work quite well for me otherwise.

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            Re: Can auto-suggest be used for TextArea field?

            To word wrap your auto-suggest, just set the Width under Optional Properties in the lookup definition. It will wrap to your width designation, but still drop in the whole, un-wrapped value in the target field.
            Steve Wood
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              #7
              Re: Can auto-suggest be used for TextArea field?

              Edwin

              I would not be trying to do a direct lookup of a very lengthy thing, I'd be adding a field with a title for the paragraph, and doing the lookup on that - with a text box.
              Wendy Welton
              Architect
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                Re: Can auto-suggest be used for TextArea field?

                Wendy, before I got to your reply, that is exactly what my approach would be and how I've done it all through the years. And, there are ways to show what each lookup value means. So much easier, at least for me.

                The problem with a long string of text, as time goes on, what if you have similar strings? Too cumbersome to read the entire text. Additionally, with real estate as an issue, it uses much more real estate than is necessary.

                kenn
                TYVM :) kenn

                Knowing what you can achieve will not become reality until you imagine and explore.

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                  Re: Can auto-suggest be used for TextArea field?

                  You could use the auto-suggest to find what you are looking for and fill in a field which could be a text box. This way you could keep the actual auto-suggest small but display a decent size lookup and get what you are looking for.

                  If needed then you could empty the auto-suggest by changing the datasubmitted back to "" or use the datasubmitted.textbox to fill in the datasubmitted auto-suggest.

                  Which ever you need.
                  Chad Brown

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                    Re: Can auto-suggest be used for TextArea field?

                    Thank you lady and gentlemen for the great suggestions.

                    In my application, the user is to input a repair activity and my system is to autofill the repair code. The user remembers the activity description, but not the code, thus the desire to auto-suggest the choices for the user to pick. That actually worked quite well other than the length limitation. The repair activity can easily exceed 20 characters but I do know the maximum length since it is drawn from a table. So I can preallocate the textbox width althought word wrap seems so much easier. I will not have a duplication problem Kenn mentioned since the datatable is prebuilt with known activities. However, if in fact I can only use textbox, I can live with that.

                    It is still a bit puzzling why auto-suggest cannot be used for textarea, and oh BTW, it might be a good idea to gray out the auto-suggest feature if textarea is choosen as the control. Currently the error message is a bit confusing. It say the "auto-suggest definition is incomplete"

                    BTW, I just reviewed the new feature of auto-suggest/fill in V11 to support multiple entreis, to mimic Gmail receipient field. I found it interesting that the Gmail recepient field fill will expand its height when the contents are bigger than its width (this will be common place for multiple entries in one field). Wondering if that is a special kind of 'textbox' control, if not 'textarea'.


                    Thanks again!

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