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Australian Plant Pest Database Hub
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Case where exact match on species doesn't come first for autocomplete #31

Open ansell opened 7 years ago

ansell commented 7 years ago

Not sure how often this happens, but if there is an exact match for a species name, it must come first in the autocomplete options. If it does not, it risks overwriting the query with a completely different species, as the autocomplete may switch the value without being obvious to the user.

In this case I was testing with the following species family name and the exact match came second in the list instead of first:

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