Question about autocomplete in Pega

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Taking into consideration the following question: An order form provides these options from which customers can select one option: autocomplete, checkbox, radio buttons. According to the best practices, why the autocomplete is the best UI control type to minimize clutter on the order form?

Thanks in advance for the answer!

BR,

Delia

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Hi @Delia Renata,

Based on the UI controls we provide OOTB controls to capture the user inputs. Dropdowns, Radio Buttons and Autocompletes provide a user restricted selection option where the entered data cannot be dynamic but has to be chosen from the respected list. Among these we make the classifiaction based on the options count.

If the options list count is 2-3 Radio buttons is the desired choice, if the list is bigger than that we go for dropdowns and finally for lists that has a large data set we go for autocompletes as there we have the provision to choose use keywords to filter and share the best possible match.

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Hi @Delia Renata,

You can check the table under Data Validation with controls → Control Types in

There Pega proposes that as a best practice:

  • Radio buttons for fewer than five options.
  • Autocomplete for more than twenty options.
  • Dropdown, somewhere in the middle.

(But this depends on your requirement or expected user experience, for example for a Country List you usually display a dropdown).