Setting the selected option for Autocomplete Component

Marketplace
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Hello, I am using the Autocomplete Component from the marketplace. I can define the list of options, but I couldn’t find a way do two things:

  1. Set one of the option as selected
  2. Get the value of the option that’s been selected

For (2), I am currently using a workaround to check the “on change” value to see if it matches an option within the list.

Help will be much appreciated!

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Hello, @Bob_Leung.

We will try to add this functionality as soon as possible. Tha task was delegated to the developer.

Regards, Nikita.

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That would be fantastic. Thank you.

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Hi, @Bob_Leung !

We are happy to announce that the “Autocomplete” component has been updated to the 2.1.0 version with a new Logic handler and actions. You already can try it on the Marketplace or Update your actual component to the last version in your App.

Happy Codeless Coding!

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That is awesome! I will check it out for sure!

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Hey Backendless Team - I finally had a chance to test the updated AutoComplete new actions and noticed a small issue.

Here’s a short video to demostrate:

Hope this helps.

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I just did further tests and in fact even if I add a wait of 1ms after the “set value” before trying to get the value, then the correct value is obtained. So there’s clearly a very easy workaround, but just might be confusing for people if they happen to have a function that set and get value of the autocomplete immediately after each other.

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@Bob_Leung ,

You should use autocomplete actions to get values of autocomplete instead of regular event handlers.

Could you please try them and write me back about results?

Regards, Andriy

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Hi, I am still not consistently able to get the values using the the autocomplete actions yet. However, I have yet to fully debug and see if it’s something I am doing wrong or what. Will come back to you once I have figured this out.