Search Box for Picklist Value Selection

🔎Salesforce - Search Box for Picklist Value Selection

If you've ever worked with long picklists in Salesforce—think 100+ country names, product types, or status codes—you’ve probably heard your users grumble: "Why can’t I just search this thing?" Good news: with this LWC trick, you can add search functionality to those clunky picklists and make your UX sparkle.

🧭 The Problem with Native Picklists

Salesforce’s standard picklists are... functional. But once the list gets long, scrolling becomes tedious. Users waste time hunting for the right value—and heaven help them if the list isn't alphabetized. Native picklists in Lightning don’t come with a search box out of the box, leaving many admins wondering how to bridge the gap between form and function.

💡 Use these Lightning Web Components (LWC)!

I developed these two LWC that solve the problem:

• myPicklist: the picklist with the searchbox.
• myPicklistForm: the LWC to add to the Lightning Layout, you can add several fields at the same time.

Bonus: You can even make it multi-select, something standard picklists don’t support! But I leave that to you 😊.

I'm leaving the whole code here, in my personal Google Drive (should you have problems downloading it, don't hesitate to contact me).

✨ Wrapping Up

Adding a search box to picklists in Salesforce may not be native, but it’s totally doable—and totally worth it. Using these LWCs, your users will thank you for saving them precious minutes (and frustration). Enjoy!

Note: the Apex controller calls a utility function "MY_Utilities.getPicklistValues(soField)" in a class not included in the sources I provided , anyway, the function code is in it, check the Apex class first.