Portlet Factory, Version 6.1.2
Ajax Type-Ahead builder
This builder attaches to an HTML text input field, and provides "type ahead" functionality for that input.
The builder accomplishes this by generating client JavaScript that monitors a user's keystrokes as they enter information into the text field. As the user inputs text, script code calls back to the server over HTTP. In response, a list of choices, based on what has been typed so far, is returned from the server.
The builder displays the list of returned items as a select list underneath the original text field. As the list is continuously updated, a user can either continue to type a complete text entry or opt to select a choice from the server-provided list.
Parent topic: Builder help
- About using the builder call editor
The builder call editor allows you to specify all the input values to a builder call.
- Ajax Type-Ahead builder inputs
This topic describes the Ajax Type-Ahead builder inputs.
- Objects the Ajax Typeahead builder creates
This topic describes the artifacts that the Ajax Type-Ahead builder creates in the WebApp.
- About filtering choices returned from the server
On each user keystroke, this builder's runtime code evaluates the reference provided as the Values input. The builder decides, based on what the user has typed so far, what choices to display.
- Providing list choices from XML data
This topic describes the steps to follow to provide list choices from XML data.
- Locating control builder calls on pages
Each page location technique results in the generation of a Page Location string that determines on what pages, and where on those pages, the control builder calls are added.
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