Wildcard search in Perspective Dropdown for navigating to stations by tag path

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Hi all,

We’re working on a SCADA project in Ignition Perspective (version [8.3.10]) and need a search feature that lets operators find a station by its tag path and navigate straight to its view.

Current setup

We’re using the Dropdown component (ia.input.dropdown) as the search box, since its built-in search already handles filtering as the user types. The options are populated by a binding [query / script transform / tag browse] that returns each station’s tag path, for example:

[default]Station1/PS_01/Flow
[default]Station1/RSVR_02/Level
[default]Station2/ET_05/Level

Each option is { "label": <tag path or display name>, "value": <tag path> }. On selection, an onActionPerformed / property change script reads the value and calls system.perspective.navigate() to open the station view.

What we need

The built-in search only does a plain substring match. Operators often know part of the path but not the full structure, so we’d like wildcard support, for example:

  • Station1*Flow matches all flow tags under Station1
  • *RSVR*Level matches reservoir level tags in any station
  • PS_0? matches PS_01 to PS_09

Questions

  1. Is there any way to make the Dropdown’s built-in search support wildcards (*, ?), or extend its matching logic?

Any examples or suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Muhammed Ashik