Combo Boxes are one of the most frequently used features for View Mode users in Displayr. However, when working with long lists of items, they can be difficult to navigate. Users must currently scroll through the entire list to locate and select the desired item, which is inefficient and error-prone.

To improve usability, please make Combo Box menus searchable, allowing users to type and have the item list dynamically filter to matching entries. This “typeahead” or “filter-as-you-type” behavior already exists elsewhere in Displayr (and Q)—for example, when searching for variables in Table > Rows and Columns or for outputs in Combine Table, users in Licensing settings.

Though this may appear to be a small enhancement, it would significantly improve the user experience, especially for documents containing long or complex lists.

This feature dynamically filters the options in the combo box based on the user’s input, making finding specific entries in a large list easier.

If you have a combo box that has a long list, for example, country and you quickly wanted to select it without having to scroll. It would be good to have the ability to start typing the name of the country and the list filters down as you type.

For example:

If I has a list of countries of the world and I typed _United_ the list in the combo box would reduce to:

_United Arab Emirates_

_United Kingdom_

_United States of America_

This makes the combo box more user-friendly.

Searchable filters – option to have text input that searches the values in the filter and selects the ones that include that text (this is standard in Microsoft filters).

The user would like to be able to search categories within a control box.