L/V 10 Tip of the Day #67 Force the drop-down search menu

MJ. Smith

Another tip of the day (TOTD) series for Logos/Verbum 10. They will be short and often drawn from forum posts. Feel free to ask questions and/or suggest forum posts you'd like to see included. Adding comments about the behavior on mobile and web apps would be appreciated by your fellow forumites. A search for "L/V 10 Tip of the Day site:community.logos.com" on Google should bring the tips up as should this Reading List within the application.

This tip is inspired the forum post: BUG? unexpected search argument box behavior - Logos Forums

This is how the selection box normally works - you enter a word(s) or partial word, it provides options:

But sometimes we make spelling or typing errors - sometimes we still get a select list, sometimes we don't:

When we correct an error that is not in the final term of the search argument (string), we still don't get the expected select list:

Andrew provides the explanation and solution:

Andrew Batishko said:

It is a known limitation that the autocompleter only responds to changes to the final term of the search string (the quote is not part of the final term). You can force the prompt up again by putting your cursor at the end, then adding and deleting a space.