Auto-Suggest to end user

Hi

My requirement is provide auto-suggestions box popping up for user when he fills up a form on the home page. For eg. I have a text field to fill country. As the user types "au" he will be suggested "Australia" and "Austria" to chose from. this in for mation will be ftched from filesystem/DB mainained on the server side.

Do I need to send parameters to my CGI, as the user enters text in the text field, to fetch data from FS/DB, for every user typing in some thing??

Is there a better way around??

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ISCBorisB

Hi

My requirement is provide auto-suggestions box popping up for user when he fills up a form on the home page. For eg. I have a text field to fill country. As the user types "au" he will be suggested "Australia" and "Austria" to chose from. this in for mation will be ftched from filesystem/DB mainained on the server side.

Do I need to send parameters to my CGI, as the user enters text in the text field, to fetch data from FS/DB, for every user typing in some thing??

Is there a better way around??

You'll need your "suggest" information somewhere. So, the way I see it you have two basic options with numerous
implementation possibilities within each

1. "Round Tripping" to server side while typing. Sure enough. you'll have to Post current value of the Item.
If I were you I would use Java Servlet (not Perl CGI) for this particular option. The difference is CGI Compile
overhead, Servlet will be way faster in this case.

2. Get information from the Server upfront on Form initiation (formatted as JS Arrays for example) and do actual
processing completely on the Client side using JS, FormAPI, etc

Note that either way you may have an issue with the "User Typing" events. Supported 'onItemChange' is not good enough
for you, it fires upon changing Focus. You'll need something like 'onKeyDown' and this is not supported in FormAPI.
Of course this consideration is only relevant if you're talking DCT Form

RonaldV

Hi

My requirement is provide auto-suggestions box popping up for user when he fills up a form on the home page. For eg. I have a text field to fill country. As the user types "au" he will be suggested "Australia" and "Austria" to chose from. this in for mation will be ftched from filesystem/DB mainained on the server side.

Do I need to send parameters to my CGI, as the user enters text in the text field, to fetch data from FS/DB, for every user typing in some thing??

Is there a better way around??

If I understand your question correctly you better post this question on a Ajax/javascript-forum instead of a Teamsite-forum.

wild123

2. Get information from the Server upfront on Form initiation (formatted as JS Arrays for example) and do actual
processing completely on the Client side using JS, FormAPI, etc

Hi Boris

Thanks for the advice. I like the second option more. But am not sure if it is advisable to fetch the info, as the form loads, for an array that may contain more than 10000 words. I have to do this for 5 fields on the same form ,so I will end up loading 5 arrays of 50k word in all.
I am not doing it for a DCT.
Help!

Thanks

ISCBorisB

Hi Boris

Thanks for the advice. I like the second option more. But am not sure if it is advisable to fetch the info, as the form loads, for an array that may contain more than 10000 words. I have to do this for 5 fields on the same form ,so I will end up loading 5 arrays of 50k word in all.
I am not doing it for a DCT.
Help!

Thanks

We'd have to know more about your Production rendition Environment to make suggestions.

Within Option 1 I would consider a Servlet for the JSP Environment, HTTPHandler for .Net or AJAX for plain vanilla
HTML/JS, etc.

As to Option 2, well... In your sample you've used Country Code. There are currently ~190 UN Members, where did you get
10000 Words From?! Besides, an average length of the English word is 5.10 letters. So, 5.1 x 10^4 ~ 50Kb.
Unless you cater for the users with the original IBM PC and 14K phone modem it's nothing

MukeshYadav

Hi

My requirement is provide auto-suggestions box popping up for user when he fills up a form on the home page. For eg. I have a text field to fill country. As the user types "au" he will be suggested "Australia" and "Austria" to chose from. this in for mation will be ftched from filesystem/DB mainained on the server side.

Do I need to send parameters to my CGI, as the user enters text in the text field, to fetch data from FS/DB, for every user typing in some thing??

Is there a better way around??

Please go through the "Adding jQuery autocomplete to TeamSite Formspublisher" on the http://www.darren-ferguson.com/2009/2/16/adding-jquery-autocomplete-to-teamsite-formspublisher.aspx

Hope, this may help you.

sanoboy

Please go through the "Adding jQuery autocomplete to TeamSite Formspublisher" on the http://www.darren-ferguson.com/2009/2/16/adding-jquery-autocomplete-to-teamsite-formspublisher.aspx

Hope, this may help you.

For auto-suggest in general html page.
using ajax, send a request, in java class search similar keyworks from database and then getback a xml, at last using innerHTML to display these list. It works properly.

But in livesite component, i am a little confuse, for the same requirement, i don't think still need do these things i.e configure servlet web.xml in webapps under tomcat, how should i process this. servlet, ajax.js, I think something related should have been encapsulated in livesite.

Can suggest some advise?

vpatel

But in livesite component, i am a little confuse, for the same requirement, i don't think still need do these things i.e configure servlet web.xml in webapps under tomcat, how should i process this. servlet, ajax.js, I think something related should have been encapsulated in livesite.

What you think and how the product really works could be two different things :-)! AJAX or some other JS framework might be the easiest (perhaps only) way to do this.