Hi Jose, Thanks for you reply.
Following your suggestion, and making one adjustment: return dict(suggestions=json.dumps(countries)) the controller/function jsonsource/name_autocomplete now returns a correct list: ["first_option", "second_option", "third_option"] In layout.html before the closing body selector I've got: <script type="text/javascript"> $(document).ready(function() { $(function() {$("#dummy_table_name").autocomplete({serviceUrl: "{{=URL('jsonsource', 'name_autocomplete')}}", minChars: 2});}); }); </script> When typing some name in the auto complete field I get the following error: Uncaught SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data jQuery 6 d currentRequest c fireWith l o When I use a local look up like this: <script type="text/javascript"> $(document).ready(function() { var suggestions = ["first_option", "second_option", "third_option"] $(function() {$("#dummy_table_name").autocomplete({lookup: suggestions, minChars: 2});}); }); </script> the autocomplete works, however, I need the ajax lookup, I hope you can help me solve this one last issue. Kind regards, Annet -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/web2py/b772bf5e-4c8f-416c-95b1-aeb737f34ae2o%40googlegroups.com.