Type Ahead Lookup

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Phil Leonard

Can anyone point me to information about allowing the user to type more than
one character to progressively narrow down the choices in a lookup in a
secondary source? I'd like to be able to type "s" "m" "i" to zero in on the
Smiths. I would really like to use a drop down box so when the user got to
the Smiths they could then pick one off of the list. Any help will be greatly
appreciated.
 
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S.Y.M. Wong-A-Ton

The problem with type ahead is that each keystroke triggers an event. In
InfoPath, events are triggered when you leave a field, not while you're
typing. So type ahead is not available in InfoPath. You need a (third-party)
ActiveX control for this.
 

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