FrontAccounting forum — FA WITH AUTOCOMPLETE DOWNLOAD

Re: FA WITH AUTOCOMPLETE DOWNLOAD

2022-04-21T15:17:45Z

@anoopmb
If any value with & is selected in the dropdown, after clicking on it the selected value turns into &
so i have changed the typer.value = selectedoption.innerHTML; to typer.value = selectedoption.innerText;
in the following:

selectedoption.innerHTML = selectedoption.innerHTML.replace(/ /gi, ' ');
typer.setAttribute("value", selectedoption.innerHTML);
// typer.value = selectedoption.innerHTML;
typer.value = selectedoption.innerText;
var hidden = document.createElement('INPUT');

I also added the following regex in the typer.onblur
+ selval = selval.replace(/&/gi, '&');

here is the updated code:
typer.onblur = function (event) {

if (optgropc != 1) {
pop("none");
optgropc = 0;
if (typer.value == null || typer.value == '' || typer.value != selectedoption.innerHTML) {
var selval = selectedoption.innerHTML;
+ selval = selval.replace(/&/gi, '&');
selval = selval.replace(/\/ig, '');
selval = selval.replace(/\<\/u\>/ig, '');
selval = selval.replace(/ /gi, ' ');
typer.value = selval;
hidden.value = selectedvalue;

Re: FA WITH AUTOCOMPLETE DOWNLOAD

2018-12-30T15:05:59Z

thanks Braath and i will upadate the code shortly with your changes

Re: FA WITH AUTOCOMPLETE DOWNLOAD

2018-12-29T16:28:31Z

Code fixes for special characters and lost focus

Re: FA WITH AUTOCOMPLETE DOWNLOAD

2018-12-29T14:17:17Z

@Braath Waate

yeah, please do your contribution so everyone can get benefit of it
thanks for notifying these issues

Re: FA WITH AUTOCOMPLETE DOWNLOAD

2018-12-29T01:48:26Z

The lists need special character handling so that names like "A & L" Foods appear properly. One possible fix is to call

function decodeHtml(html) {
    var txt = document.createElement("textarea");
    txt.innerHTML = html;
    return txt.value;
}

where the code currently uses "selval" and

selectedoption.innerHTML= selectedoption.innerHTML.replace(/ /gi,' ');

which currently may not be doing anything because the browser just converts back.

Another minor problem is lost focus because FA does not expect to focus on a hidden variable, which in the new code has the old list name (the new list being named "name" + mselect). I have a simple fix for this if you are interested.

Thanks for the contribution. I already had autocomplete lists running on my site but I like yours better because it modular and non-invasive, so I replaced my code with yours.

Re: FA WITH AUTOCOMPLETE DOWNLOAD

2018-12-28T14:53:25Z

I'm also eagerly waiting for this
Thanks u so much in advance Anoop, you are doing awesome work

anoopmb wrote:

@ kvvaradha
yeah we can try that as the popup search type is available now in combo input function.
let me take a look
thanks for testing

Re: FA WITH AUTOCOMPLETE DOWNLOAD

2018-12-28T08:23:21Z

@ kvvaradha

yeah we can try that as the popup search type is available now in combo input function.

let me take a look

thanks for testing

Re: FA WITH AUTOCOMPLETE DOWNLOAD

2018-12-27T10:40:35Z

@anoopmb - I have tested your auto complete. Its working well. You have done a great job. There is one suggestion from my side.
When It comes with large list of options in select. Like more than 1000 items in the list. It will freeze the system for a while and will go on.

So if possible rewrite it to perform Ajax call and get results from server. By default you can show 20, items in the list. Rest should not be added to the list. When user start typing the related items should show here.

Re: FA WITH AUTOCOMPLETE DOWNLOAD

2018-12-27T10:35:10Z

@boxygen - you can use a software named ", Meld" ,it's available for Linux, windows and OS x. Can see the file differences if you compare the files with default core. You can get difference from it . Hope it helps you

Re: FA WITH AUTOCOMPLETE DOWNLOAD

2018-12-27T07:26:21Z

@boxygen

please use a file compare utility.

i changed ui_lists.inc and auto_select_box.inc

changed $auto_select_box to $SysPrefs->auto_select_box

Re: FA WITH AUTOCOMPLETE DOWNLOAD

2018-12-27T05:41:24Z

@anoopmb can you mention the changes you made in the core. Overwriting my files with your files will overwrite some of my modifications too.

Thanks in Advance

Re: FA WITH AUTOCOMPLETE DOWNLOAD

2018-12-27T03:49:44Z

@pswamis

Hi,

you can download the changed files from here

Download files

its updated to latest version 2.4.6

thanks for using this

Re: FA WITH AUTOCOMPLETE DOWNLOAD

2018-12-27T00:57:35Z

To make this work with v2.4.6:
add in the auto_select_box lines in ui_lists.inc and auto_select_box.inc but change them to @$SysPrefs->auto_select_box and define the global SysPrefs. Then add in the MBCODE block in js/inserts.js and the escapeRegExp (late adder) outside the MBCODE block and the call to mbselect in the 'select' block. Add the MBCODE block in the desired theme.

Re: FA WITH AUTOCOMPLETE DOWNLOAD

2018-12-26T16:05:59Z

Hi Anoop,
I'm using Front Account v2.4.6 and I'm completely new to this..
I was trying to apply your solution for autocomplete dropdown, but its not working, can you please help me here, it's a very urgent requirement for me..
Thanks in advance.

Re: FA WITH AUTOCOMPLETE DOWNLOAD

2017-05-05T15:19:16Z

In Post 16 bogeyman has given the link to download

http://stuff.w3shaman.com/others/fa-autocomplete.zip