text_field_with_auto_complete only for the beginning of a string??

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Hi,

how do I achieve with text_field_with_auto_complete that writing 'ipsum' in the textbox suggest also 'lorem ipsum'? so far it works for me only whent I know the first letters and type them in. like 'lo' suggests 'lorem ipsum' but 'ip' suggests nothing.

hopefully it's pretty easy. thanks a lot

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Hi,

how do I achieve with text_field_with_auto_complete that writing 'ipsum' in the textbox suggest also 'lorem ipsum'? so far it works for me only whent I know the first letters and type them in. like 'lo' suggests 'lorem ipsum' but 'ip' suggests nothing.

You need to overwrite the method that does the auto complete searching and change it from using a SQL condition "foo%" to "%foo%". See the docs for more info.

-philip