Autocomplete dropdown or multiselect from api?

Hi @thegrbteam,

Currently, we don’t have a feature to autocomplete fields from an external database. I’ve made a note of the feature request, and we’ll keep it on our radar to be reviewed as we plan out our roadmap for the future.

Thank you for the suggestion!

Thank you for the reply @rsouzaam !
What about just an autocomplete field in general, reading from values in our database? It’s a very common field type and I couldn’t see it in the options. If there is one, could it handle 10k options comfortably?

I did find this but I’m not so sure it would be very optimised for a large number of potential results: https://wpforms.com/developers/how-to-create-an-autocomplete-field-in-your-form/

Thanks in advance.

Hi @thegrbteam,

Thanks for getting back to me!

About your question: “What about just an autocomplete field in general, reading from values in our database?” Unfortunately, we don’t have a way to allow your form read values from your database currently.

The solution shared in our guide on?https://wpforms.com/developers/how-to-create-an-autocomplete-field-in-your-form/?will load data from this part in the code:

/*An array containing all the programming class names*/
var classes = ["JavaScript","HTML/CSS","Python","C","C+","C++","Java","TypeScript","Pearl","R","SQL","PHP"];

In case you’d like to look into custom development options to create a custom code to allow your form to read values from your database, we highly recommend using Codeable.

Thanks!

Ok thanks for confirming, all the best!

Hi @thegrbteam,

Thanks for understanding, and I’m sorry that we cannot provide what you’re looking right now.

With this, I’m going to go ahead and close this thread for now. But if you’d like us to assist with WPForms Lite, please feel welcome to continue the conversation.

Thanks!