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multi select and filtering, SFcombobox and MultiSelectComboBox

I need a multi select combo box with filter type searching.  SFCombo box has very nice searching, but also a nice token mode.  I am trying to utilize both and it seems not to work.  This thread here indicates this was being worked on but I am wondering if there is a means to get this done.  I have a list of perhaps 50 items.  I want the user to be able to type a short phrase to filter the list, then they would multi select their choices for processing.  I implement this on web forms via other controls nicely but it seems this is partially implemented here as multi select disables filtering.  I have tried to implement using multi selection combobox and it also does not do filtering properly.  Is there a way without too much trouble to get this to work?

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EM Elakkiya Muthukumarasamy Syncfusion Team February 8, 2021 11:32 AM UTC

Hi David, 

Greetings from Syncfusion. 

We have checked your reported query “Enter text to filter in multiselect mode of SfComboBox” and found that you can achieve this by enabling the EnableToken and SelectedItems property in sample level. The EnableToken property determines whether the selected item(s) in the combobox should be displayed as token. And the SelectedItems property holds the tokens collection. Please refer the below help documentation link for the same. 


We hope the above solution helps. If not please share us more details about how you are using it with some code example that will be helpful for us to provide a prompt solution on this. 

Regards, 
Elakkiya 


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DA David A February 8, 2021 02:07 PM UTC

Hi, this stops the filtering though, which was what I mentioned in my ticket, please re-read and you will see that when tokens are on you cannot type anything into the list to filter it.

EM Elakkiya Muthukumarasamy Syncfusion Team February 9, 2021 10:08 AM UTC

Hi David A, 
 
Thanks for your patience. 
 
On the further analysis you can type a short phrase to filter the list and multi select the choices for processing by enabling the EnableToken property in sample level. Please refer the below sample and video for the same. 
 
 
 
Please try it with the provided solution and let us know if you need any further assistance on this. We will be glad to assist you. 
 
Regards, 
Elakkiya 


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