ajax call from case create form returns the case dashboard??

[dlats]

That's not it. I tried the same code on a site that doesn't have the error and the autocomplete still doesn't work.

Here is the html ;

<tr class="crm-case-form-block-type_dog_name">
      <td class="label"></td>
      <td class="view-value">
        <input name="type_dog_name" type="text" id="type_dog_name" class="form-text" />
         <span class="description">Type dog's name.</span>
      </td>
    </tr

The js is

cj(document).ready(function(){

  cj("#type_dog_name").autocomplete( {
     source: ["Fido","Fideaux","Fidough"]
  });

}); // doc ready

[Hershel]

The autocomplete function in CiviCRM is a somewhat older version--you may need to check manually how it works precisely--the syntax is not exactly as it is today.

[dlats]

I really want to call the api extension that I wrote using something like

var contactUrl = "/civicrm/ajax/rest?extensionName=dog&fnName=get&json=1&type=all";

cj("#type_dog_name").autocomplete( {
  contactUrl
});

What url should I use?

[Hershel]

I do not know for sure, but review my code in http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,33068.msg141008.html#msg141008 and note that the source URL goes before the {}.

This is one point that I think is different than today's syntax for autocomplete.

Perhaps review the existing code for samples of autocomplete in CiviCRM to understand better which URL to use.

[dlats]

Indeed, this is an old deprecated/unsupported and undocumented version (1.0.2) of a jQuery plugin.

By looking at examples, the code that works for the simple case is

cj("#id").autocomplete(source, {}); where var source = ["Fido","Fideaux"];

Nex I'll figure out how to get results from my api extension.