Auto Complete Drop Down Box Interface Tool!

[brianscott]

Hi Alteryx Devs - 

It would be *really tight* to have a drop down interface tool that would support auto completion based on a odbc connection to a table/column or ajax call.  I recently had a situation wherein we need to give the users the ability to select an address, then run a workflow.  But the truth is, our address data is terrible, and what I really needed was to be able to let the users start typing the address, then give them a list of choices to pick from, they pick the correct (but usually wrongly formatted) address, and then I send that value into the workflow. 

I could not find a decent way to give a gallery user a reliable way to pick an address from our list, so eventually wound up having to write an ajax piece to handle the auto completion, capture the user input, then post to a service that would in turn, interact with gallery through the API, get the response, and send it back calling page, and back to the user.  A significant amount of work to put into something that is an exceedingly common web operation of auto completion.  

This would make a lot of gallery operations flow so much more naturally.  

Thanks for listening! 

brian

[patrick_digan]

+1 This would be a great feature to have.

[JulieM]

@brianscott this is a great idea and I agree would be a great feature to have for the end user app experience.  I'm marking this as under review and will look forward to seeing comments and votes from others who'd like to see this as well.  Thanks for the great feedback and details on your use case!   

[i_love_databases]

5 years under review....