add a suggestionbox in the create part wizard

[ipochi]

Hi ,

I am new to customization

I have a string attribute , which should pick up the from user input [like google search  , autocomplete ] the valid list of values from the database.

Could anyone please tell me what would be way to go  for this sort of customization.

[BjoernRueegg]

Have a look at SuggestTextBox.

Try following http://YOUR_WINDCHILL/Windchill/app/#ptc1/carambola/customization/examples/picker/suggest

[ShirishMorkhade · Accepted solution]

Hello Imran,

I recently worked on SuggestTextBox. You will have to create a suggestion class (implementing Suggestable interface) which would basically do the query. This class should be registered as a service, This service could be called from suggestTextBox wrapper tag.

Below URLs might be useful to you:

Re: Configure Auto Suggest Picker (SuggestTextBox) on object creation page?

SuggestTextBox should work with multiple values‌

Best Regards,

Shirish

[ipochi]

Björn Rüegg  -> -->  I went to the link , Yes its exactly what i want , although I am not sure how to copy that functionality or look at the source

Shirishkumar Morkhade 

Thanks Guys ,

I'm just taking baby steps in Windchill or Flex PLM (just started)  all the help is much appreciated.

Shirishkumar Morkhade  - > "This service could be called from suggestTextBox wrapper tag." If you just give a small example how to , that would be much helpful , thank you.

                                        First two steps are done

[ipochi]

one more question.

Is this the same approach for the create part/document wizards ?
In this method we are overriding the JSP , is there a better way than overriding the jsp ?

[BjoernRueegg]

You can have just a data utility to implement the suggest text box.

I don't have any manual. Just have a look at the source of following java code

Example with JSP:

com.ptc.carambola.tags.AutoSuggestSearchHelper

-> This one is registered

wt.services/svc/default/com.ptc.core.components.suggest.Suggestable/carambola_autosuggest_helper/null/0=com.ptc.carambola.tags.AutoSuggestSearchHelper/duplicate

And the JSP is under

codebase/netmarkets/jsp/carambola/customization/examples/picker/suggest.jsp

Example with Data Utiltiy

The Data Utility would look something like this:

SuggestTextBox localSuggestTextBox = new SuggestTextBox(component_id, "nameSuggestService");

localSuggestTextBox.setMinChars(2);
localSuggestTextBox.setRequired(true);
localSuggestTextBox.setColumnName(columnName);
localSuggestTextBox.setMaxResults(50);
localSuggestTextBox.setMaxLength(40);
localSuggestTextBox.setEnabled(true);
localSuggestTextBox.setWidth(40);
localSuggestTextBox.addParm("LANGUAGE", sLanguage);

if (paramModelContext.getDescriptorMode() == ComponentMode.EDIT || paramModelContext.getDescriptorMode() == ComponentMode.CREATE) {
  localSuggestTextBox.setValue(currentValue);
} else {
  localSuggestTextBox.setValue(localSuggestTextBox.getParm((String) value));
}