Interactive Adobe Form and Search Helps

Does anyone know how to implement a Search Help in an Interactive Adobe Form? I have a requirement to fill a field with a manager and I have 17500 of them to choose from! Tried a Dropdown list, but it is not really appropriate, unless theres a way of entering a wildcard in the input field and using it to limit the dropdown list.
I am implementing the Transfer Request PCR SPTR in MSS 60.1, this PCR Adobe form is not delivered by SAP and I need to develop it.
Many thanks ... Andy

Hi,
You will get a quicker answer if you post this one in this forum:
SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe
Eddy

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[http://www.adobe.com/devnet/livecycle/articles/lc_designer_schema_tip.pdf]
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