Comments on: Super Cool Advanced Lookup Component

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:24:33 +0000

Had a hell of a time with some ajax components as of late. Originally, I thought I was doing something wrong, however I think I’ve figured it out, because of this code. If you guys might notice, this component is now broken as of Spring ’12 release. It looks like you are *required* to surround ajax components (including apex:actionSupport which is used here), inside a . It’s weird, cause without it, the “rerendered” components get refreshed, but the actual action you specify is never called.

By: Tony Coleman

Tony Coleman — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 14:56:57 +0000

I know this is old but here is a test class (with 100% coverage) in-case someone is still looking:

static testMethod Void TestAdvancedLookup () {

// Create a request to test with
date myDate = date.today();
Opportunity MyOppty = new opportunity(Name=’Test’,CloseDate=myDate,StageName=’New’);
insert MyOppty;

// Now create the vars and objects need to test this class
Id MyID;

advancedLookUp MyTestObj = new advancedLookUp();
MyTestObj.objectType = ‘Opportunity’;
MyTestObj.maxHeight = 1;
MyTestObj.selectValue = MyID;

// Run search with zero length but not null
MyTestObj.searchValue = ”;
MyTestObj.search();

// Run a search with no results
MyTestObj.searchValue = ‘Bob’;
MyTestObj.search();

// Run search with 1 result
MyTestObj.searchValue = ‘Test’;
MyTestObj.search();

// Create a 2nd request to increase results beyond the max default of 1
MyOppty = new opportunity(Name=’Test 2′,CloseDate=myDate,StageName=’New’);
insert MyOppty;

// Run search with 2 results
MyTestObj.searchValue = ‘Test’;
MyTestObj.search();

// Run search with results = height
MyTestObj.maxHeight = 2;
MyTestObj.searchValue = ‘Test’;
MyTestObj.search();

// Test the other methods …
MyTestObj.hideResults();
MyTestObj.selectValue();

} // end test method

By: naresh

naresh — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 09:46:06 +0000

Please provide a test class too for this class.That will be greatly helpful.

By: naresh

naresh — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:31:37 +0000

I used this code in my custom application.few days worked well. But suddenly stopped working. When I tested in a separate page its working. But as a field in a big form its not at all working

By: Shan

Shan — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:05:19 +0000

One more thing… When I select another Value… and hit Show, the value is not being picked up…
I am basically using your component in a dynamic SOQL reporting design…
Is there a way to refresh the value or something…

By: Shan

Shan — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:05:31 +0000

Hi:
Love this compenent… How would this work if you have a child object. Basically I have an object Course which has a lookup to Contact. I want to put a field out there which goes off the contact field in Course object??
Otherwise awesome…

By: samd

samd — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:58:39 +0000

Awesome component, thanks! Have you done any further work on getting two components to work on the same page? I’m running into this issue and haven’t managed to figure out what’s causing it.

Cheers
Sam

By: Shikibu

Shikibu — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:07:26 +0000

This is really nice. I would like to rerender some other parts of the page when the bound value is changed, but not seeing how to do so.

By: Thankful

Thankful — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 09:59:12 +0000

Thanks for such a cool lookup. I have a quick question – You mentioned that “You can have it lookup records on any object that has a Name field.”

I am new to apex and visaulforce and I am wondering if this code can be customized for other field? A custom objects tile field?

By: joborg

joborg — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:42:02 +0000

This is a killer! Thanks for publishing this good piece of work!