Originally posted by **tdinpsp** February 13, 2024
Sometimes I find it very useful to show more data to the user than just the particular data the user it typing. For example if the particular data the user is typing is a last name and types "Smith", then there might be many Smith's in the list. So by showing additional data such as the address and phone number it becomes easy for the user to pick out the exact one that they are looking for. I've done it before where the control is like a dropdownlist with a key value behind the scenes that is pass back to the program upon the user selected a single item.
This is massively useful with enterprise applications where you have large numbers of customers, products, or addresses and the tabular metadata helps you to select the one you are searching for.
Discussed in https://github.com/vikramlearning/blazorbootstrap/discussions/557