When using the “suggest” config for views derived from text (eg: combo, richselect, etc), you can specify the dataFeed property to populate the selection list from server data.
When this is done, as soon as the user enters a character (after the keyPressTimeout has expired), the web service call is made using the value with 1 character. This can produce a very large # of items in the list because only 1 character is being matched - making the result not very useful.
I would like to request a new “minChars” config option so that the suggest view will not do the filter (which can call the server) unless the user has entered the minimum # of characters specified by the “minChars” config option.
Together with the “keyPressTimeout” config option, this will make partial match searching on the server more efficient.
It seems to be simple to add the checking for minChars in the _suggestions() method of the “suggest” view.
Thanks in advance…