Feature request: minChars for suggest view

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…

There’s a possibility to implement such scenario with the existing dataFeed features. As it can be set as a function that receives a typed text,
you can check text length and then load the data:

http://webix.com/snippet/f7fc3dde

Please check also the related Docs: http://docs.webix.com/api__link__treecollection_datafeed_config.html

This question was also asked in Jan 2015.