Suggestion Box and entities

[abafna]

All,

I am displaying a list of companies and its details using data table. One of the columns is contact id, which I am currently displaying as a drop down for each row. Using seam's select items and convert entity tag, I am setting the companies contact id object directly from the drop down.

Now, the list of users is increasing and getting to a point where it is too long to browse thru to select a user.

My question is that is there a way I can get a filtered list by typing first few letters of user name from which I can select and set users object to company's contact id?

<rich:column id="contactIdCol">
 <h:selectOneMenu value="#{company.contactId}">
 <s:convertEntity />
 <s:selectItems var="user" value="#{company.userses}"
 label="#{user.username}" noSelectionLabel="Select Plant Contact..."/>
 <a4j:support </h:selectOneMenu>
 </rich:column>

Thanks in advance,
Amit

[ilya_shaikovsky]

may be check out the examples of our suggestionBox component?

[abafna]

Tried Suggestion Box but was not able to successfully assign the object and display user at the same time. 'fetchValue' assigns value that is displayed and assigned to backing bean methods. So either it can be string or user object.

If you feel I am mistaken, could you please provide me a simple example where I can select an object and display a string value from the object while selecting?

Thanks
Amit

[ilya_shaikovsky]

yes.l. input stores just string value.. But you could also store object using f:setPropertyActionListener using support on onselect. Or just store the properties you need using our objects selection feature. Check out livedemo samples.

[nbelaevski]

Check this: http://jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=145407

[abafna]

Thanks both of you... that helped .. for whatever reason, I didnt think of f:setPropertyActionListener earlier..