diff --git a/api/js/jsapi/egw_app.ts b/api/js/jsapi/egw_app.ts
index 6a763a1ee9..073285283b 100644
--- a/api/js/jsapi/egw_app.ts
+++ b/api/js/jsapi/egw_app.ts
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ import {loadWebComponent} from "../etemplate/Et2Widget/Et2Widget";
 import {Et2VfsSelectDialog} from "../etemplate/Et2Vfs/Et2VfsSelectDialog";
 import {Et2Checkbox} from "../etemplate/Et2Checkbox/Et2Checkbox";
 import type {EgwAction} from "../egw_action/EgwAction";
+import {AcSelect} from "../../../achelper/js/AcSelect/AcSelect";
 
 /**
  * Type for push-message
@@ -206,6 +207,20 @@ export abstract class EgwApp
 		}
 	}
 
+	changeButton()
+	{
+		const acSelect: AcSelect = window.document.querySelector("ac-select")
+		acSelect.disableLinkSearch = !acSelect.disableLinkSearch
+		acSelect.requestUpdate()
+		console.log("disableLinkSearch" + acSelect.disableLinkSearch)
+	}
+
+	doSomething(thing?:any)
+	{
+		console.log("doSomething\n"+thing);
+		return true;
+	}
+
 	/**
 	 * This function is called when the etemplate2 object is loaded
 	 * and ready.  If you must store a reference to the et2 object,
diff --git a/api/src/Etemplate/Widget/Link.php b/api/src/Etemplate/Widget/Link.php
index 8321c3e76e..5a0ce75fc0 100644
--- a/api/src/Etemplate/Widget/Link.php
+++ b/api/src/Etemplate/Widget/Link.php
@@ -100,6 +100,25 @@ class Link extends Etemplate\Widget
 		}
 	}
 
+    /**
+     * return test Link entries
+     */
+    public static function ajax_test_link_search($app, $type, $pattern, $options = array())
+    {
+
+        $response = Api\Json\Response::get();
+        // convert associative array to a real array with value attribute, to preserve the order of numeric keys
+        $result = [
+            0 => ["label" => "name0", "value" => 0],
+            1=> ["label" => "name1", "value" => 1],
+            2=> ["label" => "name2", "value" => 2],
+            3=> ["label" => "name3", "value" => 3],
+            4=> ["label" => "name4", "value" => 4],
+        ];
+        $response->data($result);
+
+    }
+
 	/**
 	 * Find links that match the given parameters
 	 */