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Auto complete 'select' with posibility of add
March 21, 2012, 05:54:10 am
Hi Everyone!

Wouldn't it be smart with an alternative to the 'Auto complete select' where the user can select something already typed but also deside on something else and then this thing will be added to the select base?

Think of the situation where you ask the user to fill in the name of his / her school: you can't have a complete list but you would like the different entries to be group-able.
so if the user can type "St. Johns Cathedral Primary School" and if it's not on the list, next time someone type "St. Johns P" it suggest "St. Johns Cathedral Primary School".

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Re: Auto complete 'select' with posibility of add
March 21, 2012, 10:11:57 am
The 'tagset' feature works this way - so you might want to check that out. Search for tagset on this book page:
http://book.civicrm.org/user/organising-your-data/contacts
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Re: Auto complete 'select' with posibility of add
March 21, 2012, 12:38:14 pm
Hi Dave,

Thanks for hinting me in the right direction.

I'm using version 4.1.1 and when I, in my custom profile, want to give a user the option to enter the school I select "Field name" to "Contact" and then the second dropdown to "Tag(s)".
I kinda expected a third drop down to select that tag set that should be chooseable - but in stead the profile just displays all tags avalible both signle tags and tag-sets.

Is there a way only to let the user choose the school?

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