Question
Autocomplete - best practices?
I have a requirement to search for a list of service providers in health care. The search should happen on Name, address fields, phone, etc (upto ten such fields). There are thousands of providers.
Can I go ahead and use autocomplete to search for those ten fields and show results or it hampers the performance since we are loading too many search parameters and lot of search results?
Or grid view type with search option and show results with pagination on modal dialog would be a good design to consider?
I am looking for a suggestion from both Usability & performance points of view.
Assumption - the source for the search - list of providers - is stored in a node level data page. (it is in a legacy DB, I am thinking to have it in Node level DP.) any alternative suggestions for this?
Thanks in advance.
Hello Sharma,
Thanks for writing for query in Product Support Community.
I would suggest you to go for grid view with search option and show results with pagination.
As we need to load too many search parameters, We suggest you try grid view rather than autocomplete.
Thanks & Regards,
Hari Chalamala