I have a dialog list field that uses a lookup. When the list is displayed you can for eg. key in the number 6 in and it jumps to the begining of the 6’s. As my lookup will contain 1000’s of entries, I need to be able to key in the whole number if known, eg 612345 to save the user from scrolling through the whole file. How would I do this?
Your help would be very much apprecicated.
Marion
Subject: Rich client or web?
If you were using Notes 8.5.2 or higher, you could do that if you were using Xpages.
I don’t think you can do that easily, at least not in classic Notes. The only way I can think about doing it (and I am not sure if it will work) is to use Javascript in the client to trigger a hidden button on each key press in the field.
This button in turn will read the value of the listbox and match that against the choices (your 1000+ values), then return just the ones starting with the same string. Those values get put into a hidden field, where the combobox is looking for its values. Initally the full list should be in that field.
That is where I would start looking, at least…
Subject: Found how to search
Field is still Dialog List - EditableUse option: Use the View for Dialog Choices
Name of Database
Then name of Lookup View.
Using this option you can search on whole words or numbers.