Multi select predictive search

Anonymous

#13331

Hi
I have a multiselect box which searches a custom taxonomy which is hierarchical. the small problem i am having is that when you type in the name of a level 2 taxonomy the predictive search can’t find it. it can find all top level taxonomies and you can use the drop down list to select the level 2 taxonomy with your mouse, but not matter how you type the taxonomy value in it says it has no results.

I can also untick the Hierarchical? option and it will search and find all results but this does show any level 1 results so this wont work for me.

screenshots
http://grab.by/FxB0
http://grab.by/FxB4
http://grab.by/FxAU

thanks for any help.

Ross Moderator

#13339

Hey Jonathan

This is a bug – this is because the combobox is wrapped around a html multiselect.. and the way to show hierarchical in multiselect is to prepend the the child terms with spaces ” ” – so when you type in the search box, I believe it doesn’t find anything because of this.

I’m including a fix for this in the next major update (v2.0) – should be released early April.

That being said, when you don’t use hierarchical, all should be searchable including level 0.

As an FYI, we’re using Chosen on the comboboxes (http://harvesthq.github.io/chosen/) but I think I will be changing this to select2 (https://select2.github.io/examples.html) – it provides a better API amongst other things – which I believe will resolve this issue.

Thanks

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