I've got a DnnTextSuggest control with PopulateOnDemand implemented. I do a flexible string matching search on whatever is typed in (soundex, etc), so my stored procedure might return the following list if "br" is typed in:

• Brian Jones
• Phil Brandett
• Rod Brown
• Brad Bourke

But the control filters out items that don't start with 'br', so the users never get to see Phil or Rod above. 

Can anyone help me track down the code that performs this filtering?  I've sifted through the latest released DNNTextSuggest.vb and also dnntextsuggest.js but haven't been able to identify where it's done.

Secondly, if you don't want to allow a delimited list of selections, how can you prevent the delimiter showing up in the list after a node is clicked?

Fair enough, but for my particular needs the user might mistype the name, or just plug in a firstname or surname, etc.

So I need the flexible matching.

For reference to anyone else that needs it, I modified line 422 withing dnn.controls.dnntextsuggest.js from
if (this.formatText(oTSNode.text).indexOf(this.formatText(this.getText())) == 0 && oCont.childNodes.length < this.maxRows)

To

if ((oCont.childNodes.length < this.maxRows) && ((this.callBack != '') || this.formatText(oTSNode.text).indexOf(this.formatText(this.getText())) == 0))

In this way, original left matching will be preserved if standard databinding - otherwise I'll show whatever my callback returns each time unfiltered.

With regards to specifying an empty string as a delimiter, this works in IE but doesn't seem to in Firefox  (2.0.0.5, including on your sample site).  Firefox interprets the empty string as a character with code 65533 for some reason, which comes up on screen as a question mark.  I added the following hack after line 65 to fix this:

this.delimiter = dnn.dom.getAttr(o, 'del', '');

 // HACK: Firefox seems to pickup a dodgy delimiter character when none has actually been specified 

 if (this.delimiter.charCodeAt(0) == 65533) this.delimiter = '';

David,

Thanks again for posting these changes, they are very helpful. Would you happen to know what the javascript would need to be changed to in order for the searches to always just check the beginning of new works. For example typing in Jones would return:

Bob Jones

Chad SamJones

Nathan EricJones

In the code you posted, but we are wanting it to just show Bob Jones etc... Any thoughts would be appreciated.

-Chad