Autocomplete on text fields inside collections about mavo HOT 10 CLOSED

what if I want some other options in the autocomplete that aren't part
of any other item (yet)?

On 02/04/2016 05:30 PM, Lea Verou wrote:

Autocomplete with values of the same property from other items of the
collection.

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Any actual use cases in mind?

You would have to type them at least once to add them to the autocomplete, so you may as well type them once to add them as values to the property (which would also add them to the autocomplete). If you don't plan to use them as values to the property, why have them in the autocomplete? As partial values, perhaps? Or maybe that would be useful in cases where the person creating the template is different than the person editing the data (which I expect to be many).

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We discussed having the browser achieve this functionality natively, do we still want to go down that path, or code autocomplete manually to have more control?

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Sorry, what I mean by "code manually" is to make the implementation of autocomplete ourselves, vs using the browser's native autocomplete functionality

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David, the idea was that people will automatically get autocomplete for the other values of the same property. They wouldn't have to know or care how that autocomplete was implemented.
And yes, it may be a good idea to have it as a plugin, especially if we don't use the browser's native functionality.

Btw, if people want to use the browser functionality, I realized later they can do it themselves, via existing Mavo functionality:

<div property="foo" mv-edit-list="foo"></div>

and then somewhere in the page:

<datalist id="foo">
    <option property="fooAutocomplete" mv-multiple mv-value="unique(foo)">
</datalist>

I should probably add a demo or docs about this.

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So, since this is already possible with expressions, I'm inclined to close this, unless you guys disagree.

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