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ComboBox style control in Crystal Reports

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<p>Does anyone know if a combobox style control is available in Crystal Reports? The production environment is Business Objects XI R2 on Windows 2003 Server and Crystal Reports Developer XI. Reports are delivered via Infoview.</p><p>Most of the reports have "account" as an input parameter/prompt. The values are from a LOV. Some client relationships have a few hundreds to 1000 accounts. So the usability of a HTML SELECT style dropdown degrades rapidly as the number of elements in the list grows.</p><p>A combobox control would allow the user to type in a partial account and scroll to that entry. E.g.: The search feature in Google Suggest http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en</p><p>Does WebElements have any custom controls that might have these requirements? Are there any 3rd party components that may meet these needs? </p><p>Any help would be greatly appreciated.</p><p>Thanks</p><p>Ramki </p>

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JWiseman
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<p>hello Ramki, </p><p>in the 2.1 suite there isn&#39;t a combo text box control such as in the google example.</p><p>however, for now, in your case you may wish to use a set of cascading controls which allow the end user to narrow down their search somewhat using keystrokes in conjunction with a cascade.</p><p>i&#39;ll look into the combo text box for the next iteration of the function suite though, as it&#39;s a great suggestion.</p><p>jamie</p>

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<p>Hi Jamie,</p><p>Thanks for your response. Not sure what your release lifecycle looks like. But if the next iteration has a beta version, I would be happy to test it.</p><p>Ramki </p>

JWiseman
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hello, the combo box select control is now available in the webelements 2.2 function suite.

http://diamond.businessobjects.com/node/255

thanks for the suggestion for the control! i hope that this will meet your needs.

jw

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Jamie - The combobox select control is pretty cool. Created some sample reports with it. Our next test is going to be with a bigger volume of data for the ElementValues.

Will post our feedback on how responsive the control is with say a thousand elements in the dropdown.

Regards,

Ramki Balakrishnan

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