Autocomplete

What is the Advantage of Autocomplete?

Activating the Autocomplete Extension will help you to not only speed up your data entry but also ensure consistent terminology throughout your organization. 

Once you activate this extension and assign specific terms for certain fields, WRMD will display a dropdown menu of those terms in those fields. All you will need to do is choose from the list. Of course, you can also type in something new, but having access to those terms will save you time and keep your language consistent.

To see how this works, let’s take a look at the Adding a New Patient page. Because we have pre-assigned some values to the Reasons for Admission field, they appear in the drop-down menu the moment we click in that field. Because we allowed for multiple entries in that field, we can include multiple reasons, both written and chosen from the dropdown menu. Be sure to notice how consistency might be developed in your organization. Maybe you want people to use the term CBC rather than write out Caught by Cat or Cat Bite. Having such a system will help everyone to use language similarly.

It is important not to confuse the Autocomplete feature in WRMD with the Autofill features on your browser. Your browser may also have some auto-suggestions on fields, but these are Autofill responses, and they are not the same as the Autocomplete features in WRMD. While you can use them if appropriate, just know that they are not shared across all devices. Someone else’s computer will have different autofill suggestions. Also, realize that your browser also remembers typos and will continue to suggest them. Just keep that in mind when filling out fields on WRMD.

Activating the Autocomplete Extension

Note: Users with Admin or Super Admin status are able to access the Extension Features in Settings.

Step 1

Visit https://www.wrmd.org/signin and log into your account using the username and password that you registered with. 

Step 2

Access your account settings. Click on the arrow next to your name in the top right corner and choose settings from the drop-down menu.  

Step 3

On the left sidebar, click on All Extensions in the Extensions panel on the left side.

Step 4

Activate the Autocomplete Extension by clicking the green Activate the Autocomplete Extension button. Once activated it will always be available until you deactivate it.

When the Autocomplete Extension is activated, it will appear in the Extensions panel.

Creating an Autocomplete Field

Step 1

To open the autocomplete page, click on Autocomplete in the Extensions panel.

Step 2

To create an autocomplete list for a field, click in the textbox under field and choose the field you want from the drop-down menu. 

Your entries will appear listed below the blank field.

Step 3

Fill in the corresponding Values field with a comma-separated list of values. The words you choose for this list are up to you.

Step 4

Check the box under Enforce Single Value only if you want WRMD to limit your entry to one item. This limitation would appropriate for a City Found field because an animal can only be found in one place. However, there could be several Reasons for Admission, so you wouldn’t want to enforce a single value in that case.

Step 5

Click on the green Update Autocomplete Fields button.

Step 6

To continue adding fields follow Steps 1-5 under Creating an Autocomplete Field. Your field will appear as a list.

Editing an Autocomplete Field

Step 1

Open the autocomplete page, by clicking on Autocomplete in the Extensions panel.

Step 2

Click directly on the Value field to modify, edit, add, or delete terms.

Step 3

Click the green Update Autocomplete Fields button (or hit the Return key). Your changes will be recorded.

Deleting an Autocomplete Field

Step 1

Open the autocomplete page, by clicking on Autocomplete in the Extensions panel.

Step 2

Click directly on the terms under Value. Delete all the terms in this category. Without any values listed, the entire row will delete when you click the update button (or press the Return key).

Step 3

Click the green Update Autocomplete Fields button (or hit the Return key). The entire entry will be deleted.