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Is there a way to programmatically display the list of items in a DropDown element upon initial display of a form, rather than having to have a user touch the DropDown first?

I've tried setting the 'hasFocus' property of the DropDown, but that does not generate the desired effect.

The scenario is that I've got a DropDown that contains a list of jobs for a customer, and that list can have as many as a couple hundred jobs. The first 'item' in my DropDown list is 'Filter List...', which, when touched, displays a popOver form, allowing entry of a 'contains' string that is then used as input into the procedure that populates the DropDown list. Once a DropDown list is filtered, I'd like to have the filtered list displayed to the user, rather than having to have them touch the DropDown again in order to select from the filtered list (see attached doc for screenshots).

TIA

There is no option to cause it to display initially.

Could you perhaps expand the filter popover to show the currently selected job and the current filtered jobs list in a scrollable table?

Working from the popover the user can (re)filter the jobs list, select a job from the current filtered jobs table - or just dismiss it by touching somewhere else because they are happy with the currently selected job.

On the initial form display the drop down – and also attach the pop over to it – it just takes a touch to dismiss it – the same as displayed drop down would.