autocomplete available from M3 and stabilization fixes will be released in M4

http://community.jboss.org/docs/DOC-14357

sample available in richfaces-showcase demo.

<rich:autocomplete mode="cachedAjax" tokens=", " minChars="0"

autoFill="false" selectFirst="false" layout="table"

autocompleteList="#{capitalsBean.capitals}" var="cap" fetchValue="#{cap.name}">

<rich:column>

#{cap.name}

</rich:column>

<rich:column>

#{cap.state}

</rich:column>

</rich:autocomplete>

          <rich:autocomplete mode="cachedAjax" tokens=", " minChars="0"

               autoFill="false" selectFirst="false" layout="table"

               autocompleteList="#{capitalsBean.capitals}" var="cap" fetchValue="#{cap.name}">

                    <rich:column>

                         #{cap.name}

                    </rich:column>

                    <rich:column>

                         #{cap.state}

                    </rich:column>                    

               </rich:autocomplete>

initially rendered fine but I found weird problems at client side and filled issue (thanks!) https://jira.jboss.org/browse/RF-9672

So probably would be better to use something like

          <rich:autocomplete mode="cachedAjax" tokens=", " minChars="0"

               autoFill="false" selectFirst="false"

               autocompleteList="#{capitalsBean.capitals}" var="cap" fetchValue="#{cap.name}">

                         #{cap.name} - #{cap.state}

               </rich:autocomplete>

at least for now./

Ilya, is there some way to pass the whole object to my method as a parameter? It was possible with RichFaces 3.3, but I do not see a way now.

An example:

<rich:autocomplete mode="cachedAjax" tokens=", " minChars="0"

               autoFill="false" selectFirst="false"

               autocompleteList="#{capitalsBean.capitals}" var="cap" fetchValue="#{cap.name}">

                         #{cap.name} - #{cap.state}

    <a4j:support  event="onselect" 

                               action="#{bean.setCap(cap)}" />

</rich:autocomplete>

Thank you in advance,

T.

Hi Ilja,

I also tried to use rich:select, although I am getting not what I want. Look over my code bellow:

                  <rich:select

                             id="instSug"

                             enableManualInput="true"

                             onkeyup="suggestInst(this.value);"

                             value="#{currentUser.personInfo.institution}" >                          

                             <f:selectItems

                                  id="instVals"

                                 var="inst"

                                 value="#{suggestInstitution.resultList}"

                                  itemValue="#{inst.name}" itemLabel="#{inst.name}" />

                        </rich:select>

                        <a4j:jsFunction name="suggestInst"

                                id="instFunc"

                                execute="instSug"                  

                                render="instSug instFunc">

                                <a4j:param name="param1"

                                         assignTo="#{suggestInstitution.searchCriteria}"/>

                            </a4j:jsFunction>  

The problem with this that I can only get suggestion for samthing that starts with, but this not what most of developers want I want to provide user anythink like %search, but this is not possible with rich:select component. It is only possible with the autocomplete that does have a way to set object (Person, Car, etc). Furthermore, my solution above, would be better if I could render="instVals" but that one does not work.

One statement made for RichFaces 4 is that they cover what was offered Richfaces 3.3 so how do I do this

  <a4j:support  event="onselect" 

                               action="#{bean.setCap(cap)}" />

with richfaces 4? .

Thanks