Typeahead + Custom List?

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I’m trying to create an email system. One aspect of emails is having a type ahead for addresses, such that you can find and add and remove multiple addresses to send to. What is the best way of achieving this in Servoy?

The only idea I have is by having a type ahead and a custom list separate, and then the type ahead feeds in new additions to the custom list. That should be possible, right?

Or, is there another component better suited for this that I’m not realizing?

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Hi,

nice and easy options would be to use the select2tokenizer component (Servoy Extra Components package), you can bind this to a valuelist.
The valuelist can get its values through a global method (so select that option in the valuelist editor), when you create the global method from the valuelist editor, a sample method is provided.
The global method can retrieve values in multiple ways: find/search, query, querybuilder. You can pick whatever you’re most comfortable with.

The dataprovider that you bind to the component will get a line separated string of entries.
So an array would be retrieved easily like this: .split(‘\n’)

The result looks like this, but can be fully customised using css:
[attachment=0]tokenizer.png[/attachment]

Hope this helps

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mboegem:
Hi,

nice and easy options would be to use the select2tokenizer component (Servoy Extra Components package), you can bind this to a valuelist.
The valuelist can get its values through a global method (so select that option in the valuelist editor), when you create the global method from the valuelist editor, a sample method is provided.
The global method can retrieve values in multiple ways: find/search, query, querybuilder. You can pick whatever you’re most comfortable with.

The dataprovider that you bind to the component will get a line separated string of entries.
So an array would be retrieved easily like this: .split(‘\n’)

The result looks like this, but can be fully customised using css:
[attachment=0]tokenizer.png[/attachment]

Hope this helps

Ah, yeah that seems perfect! Thanks I’ll try and set that up.