Auto-Complete Engine

Several widgets of TopBraid’s user interface are using auto-complete to select assets. Users start typing the first few characters of a name and the system suggests matching instances of a given class. You can find examples of this in the Quick Search fields above the Class Hierarchy Panel or Taxonomy Concepts Panel and on various input fields of the Form Panel.

Developers can also access the same functionality, using the API function tbs.autoComplete and the SPARQL property function (magic property) tbs:autoComplete.

Note

The auto-complete index is a dedicated in-memory data structure in TopBraid that is based on the display labels of all instances of a given class. It uses rdfs:label and its sub-properties such as skos:prefLabel.

Warning

Auto-complete index only works correctly if the label statements (triples) are in the same graph as the rdf:type statements.

See Also

• Auto-Complete Management Admin Page

Further Reading on TopBraid

• Introduction to EDG