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  1. BFTrick
    Member

    Hello,

    I love the gravity forms documentation but I do have a few questions. I see that the text input can be populated dynamically 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?

    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.

    Posted 11 years ago on Thursday April 11, 2013 | Permalink

  2. David Peralty

    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.

    Posted 11 years ago on Thursday April 11, 2013 | Permalink

  3. BFTrick
    Member

    Thanks for the info David! Will do.

    Is an auto suggest planned for some point in the future?

    Posted 11 years ago on Thursday April 11, 2013 | Permalink

  4. David Peralty

    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.

    Posted 11 years ago on Thursday April 11, 2013 | Permalink