Dynamic AutoComplete Tool Case Studies

	EnviData Environmental pollution data analysis application.
	EnviData - Logon Screen. The user doesn't have to type the whole logon name because AutoComplete helps the user to remember it.
	EnviData - Main Form. The main form allows the user to directly enter several calculation coefficients. AutoComplete helps the user to return quickly to the previously entered values in order to compare their effects on the visualized data.
	EnviData - Scale Graph Form. The form allows the user to customize the appearance of the graphical display. AutoComplete remembers the values entered previously in the form fields and, in effect, it serves as a reminder for the user showing him the most commonly used values (this feature required a little bit of code to tell the Dynamic AutoComplete Tool when to save the user-entered values). Back to top
	LDEditor Hierarchical legislative document management solution.
	LDEditor - Insert Hyperlink Dialog. Most of the fields in this dialog allow for only a small set of feasible entries that are gradually expanded over time. Instead of storing and maintaining the entries in a database a much more efficient solution was to simply AutoComplete-enable the form and be done with it! (Of course, the tradeoffs had to be considered, such as centralized control over the value lists, extensibility, etc.)
	LDEditor - Insert Footnote Link Dialog. This dialog is of the same nature as the previous one. AutoComplete helped to implement the lookup lists just by placing the Dynamic AutoComplete Tool component onto the form. In addition, the semantics of some of the form fields dictate that they should support the same value lists as the fields in the Insert Hyperlink dialog above. This feature was easily implemented by setting the fields' extended Namespace property to the same value in both forms. Back to top
	Eurovoc Manager Eurovoc Thesaurus management solution.
	Eurovoc Manager - Connect ThesaurusServer Dialog. There are several thesaurus server end-points defined at the customer's site. AutoComplete displays the URLs that the user has already successfully connected to, thus avoiding the need to remember them. This kind of solution enabled by AutoComplete might be sometimes preferable to a more sophisticated broadcasting or URL mapping solution, because it is easy to implement and requires virtually no maintenance effort.
	Eurovoc Manager - Search Descriptor Dialog. In general, almost any kind of search functionality will benefit from AutoComplete. Users typically search for things repeatedly and AutoComplete helps them to remember their past searches easily. Just like in this Eurovoc Manager's Find Descriptor dialog. Back to top