Views Autocomplete Filters

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Add autocomplete functionality to the views filter text fields.

• It works for node titles or cck text fields.
• The autocomplete results are actually the view results, so they are view related.

How to use it:
(New) Video Tutorial : Drupal 7 Views Autocomplete Filter Tutorial

• *** The filter field should also in the view list of the fields
• You just have to check Use Autocomplete checkbox in the filter expose settings.
• (D7) Pay attention to the "Field with autocomplete results" options - an autocomplete setting

Tips & Tricks:

• To work as you wish you have to make the right choice for the operator of filter field, most likely to use "Contains"
• For referenced entities (entity reference, node references, term reference) use referenced entity fields for the filters with the right relationships.
• *** If you have more titles fields defined in fields and/or filters the correspondence between field & filter must be right
  for example: if field is title_2 then also the filter field should be title_2

*** Not sure if these are still a must

D6 Versions:
- for Views 2 - 6.x-1.* .
- for Views 3 - 6.x-3.* .
Never use 6.x-2.x-dev

Known issues:
- With Secure Pages (D6):
Solution: add this into the list of ingored paths:
*/autocomplete_filter/*.

Initially sponsored by: viennaresidence

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