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Hey,
Have been trying for hours and just can't get these.

I have a combo box with the options created dynamically by data from the database with filtering enabled.

Currently the only way to make the results appear is to start typing however i need to be able to click on it and have it drop down without any typing.

Also, each option has a value (the id of an item) and the option text (the name of an item)
On submit of a form i can get the Id of the selected option but not the text.

Are these things even possible?

Any help would be great.
Cheers.

>>Currently the only way to make the results appear is to start typing however i need to be able to click on it and have it drop down without any typing.
There are two modes of filtering

a) server side filtering
    combo.enableFilteringMode(true,url);
       - data loaded from server by typed mask
       - initial options set empty

b) client side filtering
    combo.enableFilteringMode(true)
    combo.loadXML(url)
       - data loaded once, during initialization
       - option set filled during initialization, so it will have some values from the start


>>On submit of a form i can get the Id of the selected option but not the text.
If existing option was selected from option list - only its value will included in form submit. Behavior can be changed only by code modification ( _confirmSelection method, line 798 in latest codebase )