List Box: ability to type first few characters of a list item to make it appear

[Nicholas_White]

Hello,

First time poster, be gentle!

Setup: I have a workflow which will be published to a Gallery at my work. The goal is for users to run the workflow from the gallery and be presented with a List Box of items they want pulled; they check the boxes they want, click 'Run', and download the results. 

Problem: The issue I have is that there are a possible 2,700ish number of items they can choose from, and it's a pain for them to have to scroll down to find the item they wish to select from. 

Question: Is there the ability to have a text input box at the top which filters the items in the List Box based on what you type, so that if someone already knows what they're looking for, they can type it into the box and have it appear, ready for them to tick the box.

If there are better ways to approach this problem, I'm open to suggestions.

Thanks

Nick

[CharlieS]

Hi @Nicholas_White. Congrats on your first post!

Unfortunately what you described isn't exactly possible with the LIstbox tool. However, after the user makes one selection in the tool, they can press the key and the listbox view will move to that letter )only the first observation of that letter). That will help navigating a large list like you described, but isn't exactly the multi character search I'm sure you were hoping for. 

[apathetichell]

Could a potential work around be a text box tool which allows for a few characters input - and a chained app which goes to a listbox tool with a list filtered by the text input?

The chained app/text box version would create a 1 item listbox if the entry matched the list value.

[BenMoss]

I think the option outlined above is a good solution to the problem, another one might be to look at using the tree tool if your items can be bucketed in any way. Might be worth taking a look at that.

Ben

[Nicholas_White]

Hello everyone,

I'm replying to say 'thank you' and say that I'm going through your suggestions one by one. The idea of the Tree might be the easiest to implement without having to have multiple apps chained together, I will report back what I am able to accomplish when I have something I am proud of 😀

Thanks,

Nick