# Perspective Dropdown Filtering Focus

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-dropdown-filtering-focus/93149>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** perspective\
**Created:** [July 12, 2024, 3:04pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-dropdown-filtering-focus/93149 "2024-07-12T15:04:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Eliazar\_Sanchez](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/eliazar_sanchez/32/34393_2.png) [@Eliazar\_Sanchez](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Eliazar_Sanchez)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2024, 3:04pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-dropdown-filtering-focus/93149/1 "2024-07-12T15:04:34Z")

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I have a perspective project that for various reasons I had to incorporate an onscreen keyboard built into the project itself as a popup. My issue arises when I try to incorporate a drop-down component. Usually, this component can filter its bound options with a regular keyboard, but again I cant use that. For the keyboard popup, it returns a typed in string and although i try to set the 'searchParam' property for the dropdown, it does not filter. I dont know if its because it loses focus between the keyboard and Dropdown but i could use some help figuring out if theres a way to filter a dropdown via scripting.

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**Author:** ![dkhayes117](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/dkhayes117/32/68344_2.png) [@dkhayes117](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/dkhayes117)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2024, 3:07pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-dropdown-filtering-focus/93149/2 "2024-07-12T15:07:29Z")

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This method works on table filtering, but it doesn't seem to work on the drop down like you mentioned. It might be a bug.