Notes/Domino XPages Development Forum - Active / dynamic / type ahead search

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~Kirk Cisponegenetsi

Feb 9, 2012, 11:01 AM

22 Posts

Active / dynamic / type ahead search

Category: Other
Platform: Windows
Release: 8.5.3
Role: Developer
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Replies: 2

I have a database that I would like to search - I have this working perfectly but currently need to press the search button to get the results. What I would like is the view to be refreshed per key press - this would make the view "dynamic / active". Too be clear - if the user wants to search for "Brian" then when s/he presses B I would like all the documents where the given name starts with B to be displayed in the view. When r is pressed then the view only contains documents where the first name starts with "Br" and so on. I do realise this would be a very resource intensive search (I assume we could make it better using partial refreshes) but this feature would be a killer application to get XPages to be used in our company :o)

Thanking you for any help given

Ursus

ps: I did do a bit of searching in various forums but just couldn't find the answer I needed.

~Lily Kihipisonetsi

Feb 9, 2012, 2:25 PM

261 Posts

Re: Active / dynamic / type ahead search

Ursus,

It depends on the specifics of the application you want to use this in (e.g. number of documents), but you could solve this in a number of ways:

Use FullText searches and perform a new query with every character entered.
Cache all the data you need in an object array or HashMap in one of the scopes and re-search the data in-memory every time a new character is entered.
Use a clientside approach by using a Dojo Grid and add a (clientside) filter option (see here for some explanation about filters).

Mark

~Kirk Cisponegenetsi

Feb 10, 2012, 10:20 AM

22 Posts

Re: Active / dynamic / type ahead search

Hi Mark

thank you very much for your answer. I will have to go with option 1 as, although 2 and 3 look very interesting, I would not know where to start. This is my 1st xPage application :o)

Do you perhaps have an example database?

Thanking you in advance

Ursus