Is autocomplete(single select) supported in commcare?

Developers
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Hi,

I have a requirement to design a form where the user can select one of the
50 options available. It not seems to be good approach to go with single
select as the user needs to go all the way down to select 50th option. I
have read in some other posts about autocomplete can be used with single
select.

I am just wondering if autocomplete of single select is supported in
commcare? If so how to enable it?

Thanks,
Sathish

2

Sathish,

Autocomplete is unfortunately not something we support on the mobile end of
CommCare yet. In the new version of CommCare you can use an itemset with
predicate expressions to filter a selection list down based
on previous selections or entry, though, so you could have a multipart
selection process involving the first letter or something similar.

Something like this:

... Range Make a Selection
··· On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 1:07 AM, sathish wrote:

Hi,

I have a requirement to design a form where the user can select one of the
50 options available. It not seems to be good approach to go with single
select as the user needs to go all the way down to select 50th option. I
have read in some other posts about autocomplete can be used with single
select.

I am just wondering if autocomplete of single select is supported in
commcare? If so how to enable it?

Thanks,
Sathish

3

Hi Sathish,

Also note that you could write a custom widget to support exactly what you
are talking about for a single select.

Cheers,
Jonathan

··· On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Clayton Sims wrote:

Sathish,

Autocomplete is unfortunately not something we support on the mobile end
of CommCare yet. In the new version of CommCare you can use an itemset with
predicate expressions to filter a selection list down based
on previous selections or entry, though, so you could have a multipart
selection process involving the first letter or something similar.

Something like this:

... Range Make a Selection

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 1:07 AM, sathish tsathish@thoughtworks.comwrote:

Hi,

I have a requirement to design a form where the user can select one of
the 50 options available. It not seems to be good approach to go with
single select as the user needs to go all the way down to select 50th
option. I have read in some other posts about autocomplete can be used with
single select.

I am just wondering if autocomplete of single select is supported in
commcare? If so how to enable it?

Thanks,
Sathish

4

Thanks Jonathan and Clayton,

I will give it a try and let you know in case of any issues.

Regards,
Sathish

··· On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 8:56 PM, Jonathan Jackson wrote:

Hi Sathish,

Also note that you could write a custom widget to support exactly what you
are talking about for a single select.

Cheers,
Jonathan

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Clayton Sims csims@dimagi.com wrote:

Sathish,

Autocomplete is unfortunately not something we support on the mobile end
of CommCare yet. In the new version of CommCare you can use an itemset with
predicate expressions to filter a selection list down based
on previous selections or entry, though, so you could have a multipart
selection process involving the first letter or something similar.

Something like this:

... Range Make a Selection

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 1:07 AM, sathish tsathish@thoughtworks.comwrote:

Hi,

I have a requirement to design a form where the user can select one of
the 50 options available. It not seems to be good approach to go with
single select as the user needs to go all the way down to select 50th
option. I have read in some other posts about autocomplete can be used with
single select.

I am just wondering if autocomplete of single select is supported in
commcare? If so how to enable it?

Thanks,
Sathish