I have committed the searchform to the showcase. It's at the top of the menu in showcase.xhtml.

Put a break point in navigationController.navigate and you should see the valuechangelistener event using the label instead of the value (in the navigate method, replace navigate(null,event.getNewValue().toString()); with navigate(null,null) first because the labels all have a ':' in them which is throwing an exception)

r45805: modified ace:autoCompleteEntry to use the SelectItem's value as the actual value of the options in the popup list and the label as the text that actually gets displayed in the list.

Testing Notes: Please test both server side and client side modes, in combination with using an inField label and not using it, since I ran into some issues when using inField labels, which I think are fixed now. Also, run all the regression tests and make sure nothing was affected.

Note that when using separate labels and values, after selecting an option, the actual value (and not the label) will be displayed in the text field.

        <ace:autoCompleteEntry id="autoComplete"
                               value="#{autoCompleteEntryBean.selectedText}"
                               rows="10" width="300">
            <f:selectItem itemLabel="label1" itemValue="value1" />
            <f:selectItem itemLabel="label2" itemValue="value2" />
            <f:selectItem itemLabel="label3" itemValue="value3" />
        </ace:autoCompleteEntry>

In the example above, the list will display 'label1', 'label2' and 'label3'. After selecting one of those options, the text field will be populated with 'value1', 'value2', or 'value3', accordingly.

ICEfaces4 trunk r45807; verified showcase > ace:autoCompleteEntry, tested manually QA autoCompleteEntry tests (FF34, Chrome43, IE11).

A new test page was added to QA ace:autoCompleteEntry test application:
http://dev.icesoft.com/svn/repo/qa/trunk/Regression-Icefaces4/Sparkle/Nightly/autoCompleteEntry
Test page: /ICE-10216.jsf

If the autoCompleteEntry has no option selected, and the clientSide is enabled, changing the label position displays multiple times the autoCompleteEntry label text ("LABEL").
Steps:

• go to /ICE-10216.jsf, do not select any option in the autoCompleteEntry.
• enable clientSide.
• change labelPosition from 'inField' to any other option > the label value is rendered as in attached image.

r45816: committed fix to remove 'name' attribute when the inField label is on, in order to avoid submitting the label as the value when submitting the form from outside the component.

This was actually an existing issue. It was fixed with the same technique used in ace:textEntry to avoid submitting the inField label. Please report if there are any regressions.

ICEfaces4 trunk revision 45816: verified showcase > autoCompleteEntry and QA ace:autoCompleteEntry test app (Chrome43, FF34).