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Apex 23.2 Combobox - Prevent manual entry?

JessicaWilsonApr 9 2024

I've been eagerly awaiting the new combobox feature that was announced, hoping it would enable my company to get rid of an outdated plug-in that we still use but I'm struggling with it.

What I need is a means to paste data into the field but with validation against an LOV with a return and display value. I know the manual entry feature is probably desirable for some situations but is there any way to turn it off or warn the user that the value they pasted isn't a valid value?

Autocomplete can't handle return/display values.

Select lists don't allow pasting into the field.

Pop-Up LOVs allow for pasting but only after you click the LOV open which is apparently too many clicks for my users because they rejected that solution as more cumbersome than the plug-in.

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