Hi,

I am glad that you've managed to resolve your issue and I believe that other community members may benefit from this as well.

Please, let me know if I may be of further assistance.

while this does allow the igCombo to close after pasting in a value, now the drop down immediately closes after you try to open again because it has a value already and triggers the close.

I modified the event to check if the "e.originalEvent.type == "paste""

var igComboDropDownOpenedFunction = function (e, ui) {
    if(e.originalEvent.type == "paste") {
        var searchValue = ui.owner.value();
        var searchResult = ui.owner.dataForValue(searchValue);
        if (searchResult) {
            ui.owner.element.igCombo("closeDropDown");
            var dropDownClosedFunction = ui.owner.element.igCombo("option", "dropDownClosed");
            if (dropDownClosedFunction) {
                dropDownClosedFunction(e, ui);
            }
        }
    }
};