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[Resolved] Turn on autocomplete for message composing for non friends

@applegateian

Participant

12 years, 4 months ago
Hi all

My understanding of messages is that from the compose a message page, autocomplete is used to suggest a friend to send a message to. Autocomplete does not show up if the user you are sending a message to is not a friend.

Is there a way to enable autocomplete for ALL users, regardless of whether they are a ‘friend’ or not? My site doesn’t allow users to connect in this way so I’d like autocomplete to be an option for all.

I see this code in the input field, assuming autocomplete=off is the potential issue:
```
<input type="text" name="send-to-input" class="send-to-input ac_input" id="send-to-input" autocomplete="off">
```

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@mabellaneda

Participant

11 years, 1 month ago

Hello,

is there anything new about this feature?
@danbp

Participant

11 years, 1 month ago
Comment in bp-messages-loader.php
```
/**
 * Implementation of BP_Component for the Messages component.
 *
 * @since BuddyPress (1.5.0)
 */
class BP_Messages_Component extends BP_Component {
	/**
	 * If this is true, the Message autocomplete will return friends only, unless
	 * this is set to false, in which any matching users will be returned.
	 *
	 * @since BuddyPress (1.5)
	 * @var bool
	 */
	public $autocomplete_all;
```
So yes it is implemented since BP 1.5

By default you get only suggestion of your friends names. You can get all user names, by adding this to your bp-cutom.php file

define( 'BP_MESSAGES_AUTOCOMPLETE_ALL', true );

But never use this constant if you have hundreds of user ! (imagine the length of such a list !)

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