Autocomplete behaviour on missing proposal

Hi!

What does happen if the user enters a value into the autocomplete field that is not in the list of retrieved proposals?
Does this differ between dynamic, resource and static mode?
Can the behaviour be influenced or controlled by configuration options?

The other way round:
What does happen if a key which does not exist in the proposals key list is inserted programatically (so there is no valid value to display)?
Is it deleted or does it remain in the XML?

Thank you

JT


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Hi JT,

Semantically, the autocomplete works like a (closed) selection
control. So it does not allow you to select an item which isn't in the
itemset. Momentarily, as you type in the field, you of course need to
have some text in the field that corresponds to no item's label in the
itemset; say the autocomplete allows you to enter a country name, and
so far you typed "Switz", for Switzerland. But when you tab out of the
field, if the value typed so far still isn't in in the itemset, the
field is cleared, to make it clear that no value was selected.

In resource or dynamic mode, you dynamically control the values in the
itemset, so if you want to allow the text users typed so far whatever
it is, you can just return an item with that text as label, and you'll
get the result you expect. (Note that in this case you'll have to
choose what the item's value is. It could be the same as the label,
but in some case that might cause some confusion with another item's
value, which may or may not be a problem in your case. If it is,
adding a prefix is a possible solution.)

Alex

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Hi Alex,

I have the same problem to solve - to allow free text in autocomplete box. Could you explain more on how to add a prefix to resolve this problem?

Thanks,

Frank