Autocomplete contacts behavior

[tron90]

Hi,
Newbie question, I hope you can help me.
I'm having some trouble with autocomplete. when making a note I start typing the contact name but for some reason the autocomplete lists only the last names.
So if I have John Smith and start typing "JOHN" I only get Smith in the drop down (not "john smith") which does not make any sense. I want both First and Last Name to appear in the autocomplete, otherwise it is not possible to fill the contact properly.

Also, is there any way to change the autocomplete delay?. Because now, if I stop writing for a couple of seconds my fields gets populated with the first result of the drop down (eg. "Smith"). This two problems make it really difficult to complete this field. Please tell me if I am doing something wrong, or if I need to change any code to get the behavior that I want.

Thank you!

[andopes]

You need to create an extended vardefs for your module, which contains Contacts relate field, and add an entry like that:

 $dictionary['<Bean Name>']['fields']['<contact relate field name>']['rname'] = 'name'; 
  

Obviously replace <Bean Name> and <contact relate field name> by the appropriate values.

Go to Admin -> Repair -> Quick Repair and Rebuild

[tron90]

Thank you,
Here's what I did, please correct me because it's still not working properly.

I added the file sugar/custom/modules/Notes/Ext/Vardefs/vardefs.ext.php with this contents

<?php

$dictionary['Notes']['fields']['contact_notes']['rname'] = 'name';

?>

However, after repairing, the file dissappears and there is no change.

Can you please tell me what am I doing wrong?

[andopes]

Correct file is custom/Extension/modules/Notes/Ext/Vardefs/somescript.php

Correct content is:

 <?php 
$dictionary['Note']['fields']['contact_notes']['rname'] = 'name'; 
?>  

Cheers

[tron90]

Ok,
After repairing the file doesn't dissapear anymore. But the autocomplete behavior is still the same.
I want the drop down menu to list 'name', as it is now it only lists 'last_name' and that's the cause of the problem.



Any ideas on how I can do this?

[tron90]

Any clues?

I have no idea how to solve this, any help will be much appreciated.

[andopes]

I made a mistake.

Replace the code I provided you previously by this one:

 $dictionary['Note']['fields']['contact_name']['rname'] = 'name'; 
  

Then go to Admin -> Repair -> Quick Repair and Rebuild

Regards

[tron90]

Great, that solved it!

Thank you