How to hide display value in reference qualifier in portal?

[Sapna3]

Hello,

I need help with this below issue.

I have a field in a record producer which is a reference to User (sys_user) table. I want to show Last Name, Middle Name, First Name and Employee ID as an auto-completion options. But, along with this I want to hide the display column which is Name.

My Reference qualifier is: ​ref_auto_completer=AJAXTableCompleter,ref_ac_columns=last_name;middle_name;first_name;employee_number,ref_ac_display_value=false

But ref_ac_display_value attribute is not working in the portal. Is there a workaround to achieve this?

If it's not possible to hide display value, is there a way to search by Last name without adding it as a column in autocomplete and without adding * before?

Thanks,

Sapna

[asifnoor]

Hi,

You shall use the reference qualifiers to do the search on last name. Other than that, you need to add last name to ref_ac_columns and make ref_ac_columns_search=true to make it searchable.

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[Michael Jones -]

The attribute ref_ac_display_value isn't supported within the Catalog variables from what I recall, only on form variables. 

Adding the  ref_ac_columns_search=true attribute will make the field searchable by first name, middle name, last name and employee number, but the display value will always be searched as well.