jquery Autocomplete - passing additional option value from form

Question

I have 2 selectable option values for a keywords field ie Search for Keywords Option(int)1 or Name. option int(2)

I need to pass this addition option value along with the $q query to the search form.

How do i do this?

Thanks

Answer 1

use the extraParams option. here's an example:

 jQuery("#InvestorName").autocomplete('<%= Url.Action("Autocomplete", "DocMgmt") %>', {
  dataType: 'json',
  extraParams: { type: "InvestorName" },
  max: 20,
  width: 355,
  matchContains: "word",
  autoFill: false,
  parse: function(data)
  {
   var rows = new Array();
   for (var i = 0; i < data.length; i++)
    rows[i] = { data: data[i], value: data[i].InvestorId, result: data[i].InvestorName };
   return rows;
  },
  formatItem: function(row, i, max)
  {
   return i + "/" + max + " [" + row.InvestorName + "]" + " (id: " + row.InvestorId + ")";
  },
  formatMatch: function(row, i, max)
  {
   return row.InvestorName + " " + row.InvestorId
  },
  formatResult: function(row)
  {
   return row.InvestorName;
  }
 }).result(function(event, data, formatted)
 {
  jQuery('#InvestorId').val(formatted);
 });