Appending chip select values

Csciarrino · October 2, 2025, 2:53pm

Hi all! So I have a chip selector that i want users to be able to select and add parts to when needed. It’s current able to do that for the most part. Current functionality allows:

opening search window, selecting multiple which adds to the chips.
Allows manual entry of the chips

Issue at this stage is that once the chip select has entries they’re being overriden if you try to add new entries via the search which actually makes sense to me. since I have a Search Value Set widget that the value is actionresult.PartNum.

I’ve tried a few things to no avail. Any tips on how to approach? I’ve never used this tool before so super confused haha.

dr_dan · January 25, 2026, 5:00pm

Did you ever get any resolution? I am searching for this also (or some other way to accomplish the same goal). I’m trying to avoid adding a custom button, some logic to open a new search selection tool, and then some row update that overrides the original output location with the original value + the new value. Honestly, I’ve tried to overwrite the output of the chip selector search using events and I’m not able to get it to do anything of the sort.

jbooker · January 25, 2026, 9:08pm

I tried a bunch of things like:

search-value-set expression:

'{ReportParam.Filter1}'.split('~').push('{actionResult.CustID}').join('~')

but cannot get any value expression to eval other than actionResult.CustID It’s like the search-value-set action doesn’t evaluate expressions the same as other actions unfortunately.

Curious, does search append to search results with each iteration in classic ui? Is there a searchOption selectedKeys?

Csciarrino · January 28, 2026, 9:39pm

Unfortunately never got this working as I wanted so I abandoned the chip selector entirely.

jbooker · January 28, 2026, 11:10pm

I looked at this a little deeper.

The search-value-set indeed doesn’t evaluate expressions like other ‘value’ props It just assumes dataview.column and grabs the column name. So CustID from actionResult.CustID for example. Which explains why actionResult doesn’t even have data afaik

There are two modes to search-chip-selector affecting how results are added. Manual and Auto. Manual does replace and auto appends. It’s hardcoded to manual and drops into auto when you paste insert.

Unfortunately havnt found a way to set to auto so paste is the only way to add to existing selections as far as I can tell.

Still curious whether inability to search and append is a classic parity issue.

BenWheeldon · January 29, 2026, 11:53am

You can relatively easily make this work.

I made my OnClick event like the below.

Row-Update - Setting TransView.tempPartSearch to “”
Search-Show - As normal - Like = Part.PartNum, SelectMode = MultiSelect
Search-Value-Set - Ep Binding = TransView.tempPartSearch, Value = actionResult.PartNum
Row-Update - Ep Binding = UD40.Character01, Expression = ("{UD40.Character01}" !== "") ? ("{TransView.tempPartSearch}" + "~" + "{UD40.Character01}") : "{TransView.tempPartSearch}"

No, Classic overwrites when you search again. And appends when you click the new.

dr_dan · January 29, 2026, 12:49pm

I think that may be why this feels like it should work… those classic search screens would always have a list view (for instance on a print screen) that would allow you to search and select or click that handy new button. It just doesn’t look that way in Kinetic but the functionality feels like it should be there.

I will give this a go. That looks so simple. I tried a dozen things but I don’t think I quite set it up like that. Thank you!!

BenWheeldon · January 29, 2026, 12:56pm

Not sure i follow. In Kinetic we have the same base functionality.

In Classic, Either search (overrides any existing) or hit new and enter in the value you want and tab.

In Kinetic, Either search (overrides any existing) or enter in value and tab.

In fact classic could be slightly more clicks…

jbooker · January 29, 2026, 1:16pm

Nice Ben. I thought I tried saving out the new search value then appending to the bound prop and it broke keyboard entry andor multi-paste features if the chip-selector but I’ll try again.

EDIT: dont have time to try right now but maybe the broken bits I recall are related to onClick vs onSearch trigger.

BenWheeldon · January 29, 2026, 1:38pm

Ah good shout. Just tested and yes. entering in a value just slides the search out.

Turns out the Search-Show has to be the first in the event. Not to worry moving the first row-update to blank out the temporary search field to the end rather the start and adding in the search validation restores that functionality while still maintaining the new append functionality.

jbooker · January 30, 2026, 12:47am

Nice. Now to try right-click paste linefeed-delimited string.

BenWheeldon · January 30, 2026, 1:39pm

Yep. That works too.

pawel.malicki · April 27, 2026, 2:58pm

Some way to improve this solution is actually to not display already selected items in search results.
Example for resource groups

I hope that will help someone

row-update. TransView.tempResourceGroupSearch = ““ and TransView.tmpSQL = ““,
function.
1. Name = convertDelimitedListToSQL
2. Args = [“PCResourceGroups.ResourceGroups”, “C”, “~”]
3. Output TransView.tempSQL
4. DataType = String
search-show
1. Like = ResourceGroup.ResourceGrpID
2. Pre Load Search Filter = “ResourceGrpID NOT IN ({TransView.tempSQL})”
search-value-set
1. EP Binding = TransView
2. Value = searchResult
3. Parameters → Columns = [“ResourceGrpID”]
4. Paramaters → Multi Field Bindings = [“TransView.tempResourceGroupSearch”]
row-update. PCResourceGroups.ResourceGroups = (“{PCResourceGroups.ResourceGroups}” !== “”) ? (“{TransView.tempResourceGroupSearch}” + “~” + “{PCResourceGroups.ResourceGroups}”) : “{TransView.tempResourceGroupSearch}”