I could possibly have 200,000+ user some time. How well will autocomplete perform at these higher numbers? I can't test that when I'm only at 10 current users. This might be a question for core? Would it be possible to not use autocomplete, or any other widget at all and just submit the entries and have core validate upon save/commit? Like core does for Username in the account page now.

This really is not important right now for me, but still curious.

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System Lord commented

I commented out:

//'#autocomplete_path' => 'user/autocomplete',

and it works. Drupal handles this fine. Accepts valid and rejects invalid.

This is a hack, but I'll add it to my custom module and enable it when/if I get a user base high enough that makes autocomplete too sluggish.

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Autocomplete works fine with huge lists. Check out autocomplete for function name in the Drupal API.

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System Lord commented

Thanks gisle.

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Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)