Ajax AutoComplete Manual
A detailed information about the Ajax AutoComplete extension
How many times have you struggled with entering long lists, while you had to lookup a product or country? AJAX AutoComplete will make your life easier. Your user can get a filtered dropdown with choices after entering a few characters, enabling quick search and selection without having to enter long text.
Advanced: Generating an AutoComplete Field using a Database
- First
steps - Make sure you have followed steps
one to four of the Generating an AutoComplete Field manually tutorial.
- Define a database connection - We'll select Generate autocomplete from database so we
can get our search suggestions from one of the supplied XML files.
- Setting the Provider properties - Setup your database connection in Dreamweaver. Please read "Creating a database connection" in your Dreamweaver help files if you don't know how to do
this.
Select the database you want to use in the Connection dropdown, the Table where you want to retrieve your fields from and choose your search suggestions in the Autocomplete for drop down. If you like you can also display additional fields by choosing the Optional fields list. Hold Ctrl on your keyboard to select multiple fields.
- Final Steps
Press OK to generate your AJAX AutoComplete field.
Be sure to copy the images folder and the styles folder to your server.
Press OK and press F12 to preview and save. That's it you've
created your own dynamic AutoComplete field!
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