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Jan 19, 2011 at 10:42 AM

how to reduce the level of free text / direct purchasing

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A common problem at all sites is how to reduce the level of free text / direct / non catalogue based purchasing. This is where users enter an account assignment and free text instead of using an existing material number.

This is often the case because it is too "dificult" for the user to search and find the correct material number.

How have other sites handled this?

has anyone found a solution that if a user enters lets say "paper" into the free text box, a pop up appears with a match on possible materials with the word "paper" in the short description? This sounds like a pretty easy function to implement? Does anyone have the code?

Cheerio