Question

I have an extjs combobox used for auto-complete having following configuration:

xtype:'combo',
displayField: 'name',
valueField:'id',
store: storeVar,
queryMode: 'remote',
minChars:2,
hideTrigger:true,
forceSelection:true,
typeAhead:true

There are two issues being faced by me:

a. If a user chooses a value from the list returned from server, but later wants to remove that value and keep combo-box empty, then also the old values re-appears on blur, not allowing combo-box to remain empty. How can I allow empty value in this combo-box in such a case? I understand it could be due to forceSelection:true, but then I need to keep it true as otherwise user can type any random value.

b. When the server returns an empty list, I want to display a message – No Values Found. I tried doing this, by putting this value in the displayField entity, i.e., {id:”, name:’No Value Found’}. But then in this case, the user is able to choose this value and send it to server which is not what is expected. Thus, how can I display the message for empty list?

Could someone please throw light on this?

Answer 1

For the issue related to forceSelection in the question above, following is the hack created which can serve the expected purpose:

Ext.override(Ext.form.field.ComboBox,{          
    assertValue: function() {
        var me = this,
            value = me.getRawValue(),
            rec;
        if (me.multiSelect) {
            // For multiselect, check that the current displayed value matches the current
            // selection, if it does not then revert to the most recent selection.
            if (value !== me.getDisplayValue()) {
                me.setValue(me.lastSelection);
            }
        } else {
            // For single-select, match the displayed value to a record and select it,
            // if it does not match a record then revert to the most recent selection.
            rec = me.findRecordByDisplay(value);
            if (rec) {
                me.select(rec);
            } else {
                if(!value){
                    me.setValue('');
                }else{
                    me.setValue(me.lastSelection);
                }
            }
        }
        me.collapse();
    }
});

This needs to be included after library files of extjs have been included.

For the other issue of message to be shown at No Values Found – emptyText – works fine as suggested by Varun.

Hope this helps somone looking for something similar.