5.9.5 Configure Auto Complete Dialog Box
Getting there
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Open the Document Settings dialog box.
The steps depend on your user interface mode.
User Interface Mode
Steps
Ribbon or Reflection Browser
With a session open in Reflection, from the , click
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Tap the Gear icon and then select
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On the Settings dialog box, under , click .
The Auto Complete feature recalls what you type, and automatically makes suggestions to help populate fields as it learns common commands that are repeated. By default, typing is saved with the screen location, and suggested when you type at that screen location again.
NOTE:
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This feature is not available with VT sessions.
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To use Auto Complete with uppercase only fields, clear the option. Uppercase only fields are required to support alpha data on Japanese systems. They are also common on IBM System i systems for which 5250 emulation is used.
Options
- Suggestions
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Clear this check box to have Auto Complete ignore case when you are typing in a host field.
To use Auto Complete with uppercase only fields, clear this option.
When selected, Auto Complete makes suggestions based on all user data that has been entered into any field used during the session. Field independent Auto Complete results in many more suggestions in many more screen locations.
When selected, Auto Complete "remembers" the data entered during the current session, so that if the session is closed, and then reopened, suggestions will still be available.
Clears stored suggestions created from data entered by users. The next typed entry will begin creating a new set of data from which Auto Complete suggestions are made.
After you type this number of characters, the suggestion pop-up appears.
Select the maximum number of items you want Auto Complete to suggest for any word.
Specify the longest word on which to apply Auto Complete. Longer words are ignored by this feature.
- Overwrite and Insert
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These options determine how Auto Complete behaves when entering a definition into a field with pre-existing data.
If the Auto Complete suggestion pushes existing data past the end of the field, the additional data is added at the beginning of the next available field.
Select to have all other data in the field deleted after the Auto Complete suggestion is entered.
Select to maintain existing field data, with the Auto Complete suggestion inserted at the cursor location.
If the insertion pushes existing data past the end of the field, the data is truncated.
Select to overwrite only the data that exists where the Auto Complete suggestion is being placed. Other data in the field will not be affected.
NOTE:Auto Complete does not record typing in hidden-text fields such as passwords, nor does it offer suggestions to complete typing in such fields.