Drop Down Autocomplete 1

[headguru]

Hi,
I have multiple drop downs with quite a few hundred choices in them (customers, items etc). I need to find a way to get get to a certain list item quickly.
The user is not very happy that they type "s" and it goes to the start of the "S" but if they type "s" then "e" it goes to "S" then back up to the "E"s. The same goes for products especially if the first few char's are all the same and there are 700 of them.

Is there anyway to give them an autocomplete?

Thanks in advance,
Steve

 

[TedLiu]

Hi,

I don't think it can be done in ASP dropdown list. The same function can be implemented in VB environment with Combo box. You can ask user to go to microsoft website to check their dropdown list there, they can't complete the explicit auto search either.

Ted

 

[MrGreed]

Check this article out from MS: It will help you with what you want to do as far as letting the user enter in more than one character and search on that within the select.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwebteam/html/webteam10022000.asp

"did you just say Minkey?, yes that's what I said."

MrGreed

 

[headguru]

Great that link was exatcly what I was looking for.

Thanks.

 

[TedLiu]

That's really great function. It's really a excellent implementation for all of us.