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Hi guys!

I stuck up into a - maybe for you specialists little - problem getting autocomplete to work in front end.
I've searched all the threads and blogs across the web, but non of the code-examples ended up in success.

I published a registration form for new individuals in the front end for registered users and added the field "current_employer".
So i wanted to set up this field with the autocomplete functionality, for this i added the following code to the Dynamic.tpl :

{if $session->get('userID') > 0}

<script type="text/javascript" src="{$config->resourceBase}js/rest.js"></script>{literal}
<script>
cj(document).ready(function($){
  $('#current_employer').crmAutocomplete({params:{contact_type:'Organization'}});
});
</script>
{/literal}

{/if}

I also tried several other code examples with autocomplete instead of crmAutocomplete and filled it with all kind of urls,
but i think this code should work with version 4.0.8

I even get the field working as autocomplete-field, but when i start searching, i'm getting ..... nothing, really nothing.
In the back-end this autocomplete works fine, but it would be great to get it work in front-end.

There are also no errors when i use debuging, everthing seems ok, but i'm getting no returns.

My configuration:

Ubuntu 11.10
Apache 2.2
PHP 5.3.2
MySql 5.1
Joomla 1.7.5
civiCRM 4.0.8

I appreciate any help.

Thanks Donald for your reply!

So if i understand you right, there is no way in 4.0.8, even when i'm logged in as admin in the front-end?

And is there a hope to get it work in version 4.1 soon?

thanks

Georg

Hi Lobo!

Finaly.....IT WORKS!

The update from 4.0.8 to 4.1 Beta3 worked without any Problems.
But this wasn't really a solution, because nothing changed.

So what i did was, i copied the script from the backend into the Dynamic.tpl so for now when i'm logged in in frontend as user with enough permissions the field will autofill with the organizations.

here's the code i used:

<script type="text/javascript">
var dataUrl        = "/administrator/?option=com_civicrm&task=civicrm/ajax/rest&className=CRM_Contact_Page_AJAX&fnName=getContactList&json=1&context=contact&org=1&employee_id=";
var newContactText = "(neuen Kontakteintrag erstellen)";
cj('#current_employer').autocomplete( dataUrl, {
                                      width        : 250,
                                      selectFirst  : false,
                                      matchCase    : true,
                                      matchContains: true
    }).result( function(event, data, formatted) {
        var foundContact   = ( parseInt( data[1] ) ) ? cj( "#current_employer_id" ).val( data[1] ) : cj( "#current_employer_id" ).val('');
        if ( ! foundContact.val() ) {
            cj('div#employer_address').html(newContactText).show();   
        } else {
            cj('div#employer_address').html('').hide();   
        }
    }).bind('change blur', function() {
        if ( !cj( "#current_employer_id" ).val( ) ) {
            cj('div#employer_address').html(newContactText).show();   
        }
});

// remove current employer id when current employer removed.
cj("form").submit(function() {
  if ( !cj('#current_employer').val() ) cj( "#current_employer_id" ).val('');
});

//current employer default setting
var employerId = "";
if ( employerId ) {
    var dataUrl = "/administrator/?option=com_civicrm&task=civicrm/ajax/rest&className=CRM_Contact_Page_AJAX&fnName=getContactList&json=1&context=contact&org=1&id=" + employerId + "&employee_id=" + cid ;
    cj.ajax({
        url     : dataUrl,   
        async   : false,
        success : function(html){
            //fixme for showing address in div
            htmlText = html.split( '|' , 2);
            cj('input#current_employer').val(htmlText[0]);
            cj('input#current_employer_id').val(htmlText[1]);
        }
    });
}

cj("input#current_employer").click( function( ) {
    cj("input#current_employer_id").val('');
});
</script>

thanks for your post, this was what i needed to get success!

I will keep on testing the beta and come back, if i find any bugs

rgds

Georg