Configuring autofill and autocompletion in a PCF file

You can configure autofill and autocomplete after you have configured zone mapping and addressing and have imported your zone data. PolicyCenter uses the following main classes for address autofill and autocompletion.

gw.api.contact.AddressAutocompleteHandler

Class provides methods for getting matching values from the database.

gw.api.contact.AddressAutocompleteUtil

Class supplies methods for automatically completing an address field.

You can integrate autofill and autocompletion into a PCF file in the following ways.

Complete a field automatically after you type in a few characters

For example, if you enter 941 for the ZIP code, the autocomplete list shows 94110, 94111, 94112, and so forth.

Fill other address fields after you complete a field and tab out of it

For example, after you enter the ZIP code 94115, autofill can fill in the city, county, and state as San Francisco, San Francisco, and California respectively. This level of autofill happens only if there is a unique match between the fields. For example, with San Francisco as the city and California as the state, autofilling the ZIP code would not work because San Francisco has multiple ZIP codes. This matching is done in the default autocompletion and autofill plugin, matching between the fields and the zone definitions.

Force an override of already filled fields

By default, if a field already has a value, PolicyCenter does not overwrite it. You can force it to override the field value with zone data by using a method on AddressAutocompleteUtil to autofill the address.

In addition, there are two PCF widgets that you can use to support autofill:

• AddressAutoFillRange
• AddressAutoFillInput