Fields Dropdown Autocomplete

[Jonathan Lahijani]

When editing a template, you can add fields to it using the Fields dropdown.  However, it can be tedious to perfectly scroll to the needed fields everytime you add one, especially if your site has a lot of fields.

Is it currently possible, or would it be possible, to enable auto-complete on the fields dropdown?

 

[Robin S]

That would be a nice feature. I'm a strong believer in the benefits of minimising mouse usage.

In the meantime... I'm not sure if this is a Windows or a Firefox thing, but if I click the select box and then start typing the highlight moves accordingly. So it's almost like an autocomplete.

One catch is that you can't see the highlight on disabled items (i.e. those fields that are already added to the template) but you can type a letter or two and then use the arrow keys to complete the selection.

[antpre]

Hy,

Not sure it fits your need. But did you see the set of modules posted by  macrura  last week ?

http://modules.processwire.com/modules/inputfield-selectize/

[Macrura]

it wouldn't work with Selectize.js because the fields select there is a special ASM select with nestable ability for the fieldsets. I think the only way would be enable the field itself to have an option of autocomplete.

The ideal way would be not to have automcomplete, but instead to have a search filter, because i think most of the time you do want to see all the options, but still be able to find what you want by typing.