the Dropdown list of Manufacturer must be dynamically searchable

[anajjar8F7B6]

Use Case. we have a large list of Manufacturer and the user would like to use the Keyboard to navigate to for example

"Festo".

the current behavior.  

the Manufacturer list is a Dropdown list. the user can search the list by pressing "F" for festo.

if the list of Manufactures starting with "F" is very long and the user would like to narrow the search by presses "E" after the "F" the list changes to the Manufacturer beginning with "E".

Enhancement.

the Search of the Dropdown list should be dynamic. if a user starts searching in the list for the Manufacturer Festo.

they could start by pressing "F" getting the List of all starting with "F" continuing to narrow down the results of the search by Pressing "E" getting the results of all Manufacturer starting with "FE"  . continuing by pressing "FES" until "FESTO" is selected or the user chooses this per mouse Click.

[ianatwoodbridge]

@anajjar8F7B6 - Agree that this is very poorly designed as-is. Just wanted to say, I managed a bit of a hack workaround where I wrote a program in Java to simulate pressing the down arrow key however many times it takes to get to "Festo", "Mcmaster", etc.. It significantly speeds up this part of my workflow as a designer. 

[anajjar8F7B6]

@ianatwoodbridge thank you for your vote and suggestion. I am not a full stack developer. but i would suggest something in the area of Importing react-select lib and configuring it with the proper settings. like onChange, isSearchable etc.

this way its native and available for all users without extra programming.

[ianatwoodbridge]

@anajjar8F7B6 oh you mean like in the actual implementation of the form they have for selecting the manufacturer right? I definitely agree there are much better ways to make the form - I'm just a hobby-level coder and I'm confident I could make a more useable entry field. If I had access to an API and could convince our IT dept to let me, I feel I could implement something something to entirely replace the CAD plugin's entry form..

My Java hack is just because all our users have Java installed on their computers (because upchain's Solidworks plugin uses Java), so it could be portable in theory, and using the Java Robot class I can automate what the user is doing anyway just to work around what I have access to on my computer. 

[andreja.schneider]

We are investigating this idea.