Modify quick search dropdown for products

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Could someone give me some pointers on where I need to look to modify what is shown on the autocomplete dropdown for products?

We have multiple products with the same name, but different category tree.

I need to show the hierarchy with the product as we type, it seems that it is something to do with ‘sqs’ but I can’t find any documentation on how to create
my own, or how to modify the response.

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The first issue is - is that dropdown handled by your browser, or by SuiteCRM? If you type a value that you’ve never entered before, does it auto-complete?

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Yep, it is definitely a suiteCRM thing - it is the quicksearch functionality.

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Have a look here

https://github.com/salesagility/SuiteCRM/blob/master/modules/AOS_Products_Quotes/line_items.js

And follow that QSFieldsArray into

jssource/src_files/include/javascript/quicksearch.js

Note that I don’t really know what I’m talking about, I am just using my code searching skills :slight_smile:

Good luck, please share your findings, if you are able to solve it…

Oh, and are you using XDEBUG and an IDE? That really helps for this sort of thing…

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We actually have the same issue. I think the ideal solution would be the user inputs the category (with either a dropdown or quicksearch box) and then the product field quicksearch is filtered against that.

Our workaround is adding the product category in the popup for selecting a product. You could also show that category in the line items if you wanted. This basically means the quicksearch isn’t used.

More on quicksearch: http://support.sugarcrm.com/Documentation/Sugar_Developer/Sugar_Developer_Guide_6.5/Module_Framework/Metadata/Examples/Adding_QuickSearch_to_a_custom_field/

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Nice link, I learned something new! :slight_smile:

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I ended up creating a custom quicksearch.js that adds the

String formatResult ( oResultItem , sQuery )

method to the YUI autocomplete,
with some code that checks for a couple of custom functions and then calls them if they exist.
That way in line_items.js (any anywhere else) I can set the following in the sqs_objects:


"render_result_heading": function (item) {
    return item[8];
},
"render_result_label": function (item) {
    return item[0];
}

and change what and how is returned in the quicksearch.

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