Alpha Five Version 10 Feature Peek #1: Auto-suggest fields

Last year as we prepared for the release of A5V9, we slowly trickled out a (rather long) list of feature peeks to pique your interest for the upcoming launch. Now that the drum roll has started for Alpha Five Version 10, we're ready to unveil some of the new features of V10 before our official launch later this summer.

We're incredibly excited about the progress we've made with this version (AJAX, AJAX, AJAX)!

So without further ado, let the Alpha Five Version 10 Feature Peeks begin.

First up is auto-suggest fields. These work similarly to the Google search toolbar that I'm sure everyone is at least familiar with. As you start typing into a textbox, a list of suggestions is supplied. In the case of the grid component, the suggestions can come from a static list of values, or more commonly, from a table.

The list of choices can be filtered based on other fields previously filled in. For example, say that you have defined the "city" field to be an auto-suggest field. If you previously entered "CA" into the "state" field, then when you start typing into the "city" fields, the list of suggestions will only show cities in California.

We put together this short video on the new auto-suggest fields to show you how it works.