https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/auto-suggest-field Gravity Support Forums Topic: Auto Suggest Field en-US Tue, 21 Apr 2026 09:11:53 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/auto-suggest-field#post-205876 Thu, 11 Apr 2013 15:08:07 +0000 David Peralty 205876@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>We have enhanced interfaces for our multiselect field and dropdown field that would get you close, but to pre-populate those fields with thousands of records would just slow your form to a crawl. The problem isn't creating the auto-suggest feature, but making it work with a database of parts/entries as sizeable as you are discussing. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/auto-suggest-field#post-205809 Thu, 11 Apr 2013 14:07:38 +0000 BFTrick 205809@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Thanks for the info David! Will do.</p> <p>Is an auto suggest planned for some point in the future? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/auto-suggest-field#post-205703 Thu, 11 Apr 2013 12:22:59 +0000 David Peralty 205703@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>We do not have an auto-suggest field like you've mentioned, and with such a large number of parts in your own database, you are better off custom coding the AJAX/PHP needed for such a look-up field. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/auto-suggest-field#post-205697 Thu, 11 Apr 2013 12:19:48 +0000 BFTrick 205697@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hello,</p> <p>I love the gravity forms documentation but I do have a few questions. I see that the <a href="http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Single_Line_Text" rel="nofollow">text input</a> can be <a href="http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Allow_field_to_be_populated_dynamically" rel="nofollow">populated dynamically</a> but I don't see how that looks on the front end. Is it like a field that gives you a list of suggestions once you start typing - similar to Facebook?</p> <p>Here's a little background: I have a huge list (10,000+) of parts that are constantly being updated. If I can help users type in the part number that would be fantastic. Sadly, the parts database isn't perfect so I don't want to force the user to type in one of the numbers from the DB. </p>