Have a look at the dijit.form.FilteringSelect widget. It's an alternative to a combo box.

 

By default it marks unmatched entries as an error, but it might be possible to disable that and allow values not in list.

 

As an alternative: check out the upload configuration page of Bildr (can be downloaded from OpenNTF). The "album" selection part allows you to select an existing album using a combobox. The combobox also has as entry called "New album" which displays an input field to enter a new album name not in the list already.

May be this link should help you: http://www.javascriptkit.com/script/script2/editableselect.shtml. But haven't tried it myself.

Just Google "editable select box" and lot of options should be presented to you.

Never mind.

 

 can do with the Dojo ComboBox widget ... dijit.form.ComboBox 

 Hi Paul,

 

I was wondering how you got the Dojo widget to actually return the value not in list to the NotesDocument.

 

I did the following

• Add a combobox to the Xpage.
• Assigned a set of predefined values to the combo.
• Added the dijit.form.ComboBox to the XPages Resources 
• Changed to dijit.form.ComboBox. 

Works nice and allows me to enter another value, but on submit the new value is not accepted. Somehow there still is a validation on whether it is in the list. 

 

Thanks in advance for your response.

 

Bas