Using SimpleSchema in Meteor with the AutoForm + Select2 plugins , i am trying to generate the Options for a Select field from the database.
The 'occupation' collection is published, and a collection 'Occupation' is defined in Meteor.
In SimpleSchema I have this:-
occupations: {
type: [String],
optional:true,
label: 'Occupation',
autoform:{
type:"select2",
placeholder: 'Comma spaced list of occupations',
options: function () {
Meteor.subscribe('occupations');
return Occupations.find({});
}
}
},
But it does not return the collection results, and crashes the application without an error message.
It seems the best way to handle this is to supply the options list through a helper.
{{> afQuickField name='occupations' multiple=true tags=true options=listOccupations}}
Where listOccupations is a helper within the template containing the form.
Template.myForm.helpers({
listOccupations: function () {
Meteor.subscribe('occupations');
return Occupations.find({}).fetch();
}
});
And we remove the options object from the schena
occupations: {
type: [String],
optional:true,
label: 'Occupation',
autoform:{
type:"select2",
placeholder: 'Comma spaced list of occupations',
}
},
Have you tried, this approach:
autoform: {
options: {
var occupations = [];
Occupations.find().map(function(occ) {
occupations.push(
{label: occ.description, value: occ._id}
);
});
return occupations;
}
}
hope this helps..
I had the same issue. I'm defining my collections schema in /lib/collections folder, and that is running on both server and client side. Given that, the console.log that I had was printing the correct values on server side and an empty array on client side.
What I did was:
if (Meteor.isClient){
Meteor.subscribe('service-categories-list', {
onReady: function(){
const serviceCategories = ServiceCategories.find({}).map(function(item, index) {
return {
label: item.name,
value: item.slug
};
});
Schema2._schema.type.autoform.options = serviceCategories;
}
})
}
I know that using the _schema is not a good idea, but I accept suggestions :)
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I have global variable that store the url of the uploaded image by the user.
how do i add that variable as an attribute in the document before adding it to the database?
here is my code
Meteor.methods({
submitPost: function (app) {
// Console.log('new App:', app);
check(app, {
title: String,
description: String,
category: String,
price: Number
});
Products.insert(app);
}
});
i want to add the global variable inside "app" before inserting it in Products collection
How do i do it?
This is what i added in the collection
previewImage: {
type: String,
autoValue: function(){
return PIurl;
},
autoform: {
type: "hidden"
}
},
createdAt:{
type: String,
autoValue: function(){
return new Date();
},
autoform: {
type: "hidden"
}
}
}));
after i added the above code, nothing happens when i click on submit, the form is no longer stored in the database
Two ways you can achieve this, the first is to use AutoForm.hooks onSubmit hook autoform hooks. The other way is to add it to your schema with the object attribute of autoValue :
Schema.something = new SimpleSchema({
category: {
type: String,
autoValue: function () {
return "foo";
}
},
Can any one tell me why this work in meteor:
"landTenancyType" : {
type: String,
optional: true,
autoform: {
type: "selectize",
options: function(){
return [
{label: "Joint", value: "Joint"},
{label: "Tenancy In Common", value: "Tenancy In Common"}
]
}
}
}
but this does not work:
"landTenancyType" : {
type: String,
optional: true,
autoform: {
type: "selectize",
options: function(){
return Categories.find().map(function(obj) {
console.log(obj);
return { label: obj.name, value: obj.name };
});
}
}
}
All the necessary publish and subscribe are working. Console does also show that values are coming from the collection. However a blank selectize ui is killing me. If i change type: "selectize", to type: "select", the select list is populated but i do not have the selectize goodness i need. Any ideas what I am doing wrong?
By the way I am using meteor with autoform 5.0 and comerc:autoform-selectize.
I think the problem is in this line:
Categories.find().map(function(obj)
find returns a cursor, you could do find().fetch() to get an array. Then map would work on that array.
Can you return object wittin another objects from a function ? A function will always return a single entity (either single value or single object). Please re-check your code's following section:
options: function(){
return Categories.find().map(function(obj) {
console.log(obj);
return { label: obj.name, value: obj.name };
});
}
I have an app in Meteor and the idea is that an admin user can add a document and assign it to one of its customers (customers are stored in the user collection). So I would like to present a dropdownbox with customers on the document insert view. The relevant code of the schema is below:
customer: {
type: [String],
label: "Customers",
allowedValues: function () {
return Meteor.users.find().map(function (user) {
return user._id
});
},
autoform: {
options: function () {
return Meteor.users.find({}).map(function(user) {
return {
value: user._id,
label: user.profile.name
}
})
}
},
optional: true
}
When I put a type: String (instead of [String]) it shows the current user only in a dropdownbox. If I use [String] (as it should be), the dropdownbox actually turns in a text box (it does not have the typical dropdown behaviour) with 3 fields (for all the users it found), yet it only shows the first one again but leaves placeholders for the other 2.
The view uses:
{{> afQuickField name='customer'}}
IMPORTANT: The account package, by default doest not publish the users collection. You will have to write a new publication method in your server and corresponding subscription in your client for this to work.
No read on..
Well.. This is a bit tricky. Look at the code below and edit your 'autoform' section accordingly.
autoform: {
options: function () {
var options = [];
Meteor.users.find().forEach(function (element) {
options.push({
label: element.profile.name, value: element._id
})
});
return options;
}
}
the required syntax for selection box 'options' is:
options:{[label,value],...}
The above code reads all the rows from the user collection, and pushes each row to an array called 'options' as an array.
Hope this helps or gives you some insights.
Please note that the above only works if your collection subscription/publication are proper.
Look at the following code to get a simple idea.
if (Meteor.isClient) {
Meteor.subscribe('allUsers')
}
if (Meteor.isServer) {
Meteor.publish('allUsers', function() {
return Meteor.users.find({}, {fields:{username:1,emails:1}})
})
}
Is there any way to specify the options helper in the schema? I tried:
Schema
{
favoriteColor: {
type: String,
autoform: {
options: "colorOptions"
}
}
}
But it does not seem to work.
The following technique works fine to display a select with options in a form:
Schema
{
favoriteColor: {
type: String
}
}
Helper
Template.myFormTemplate.helpers({
colorOptions: function () {
return Colors.find().map(function (c) {
return {label: c.name, value: c._id};
});
}
});
Template
{{> afQuickField name="favoriteColor" options=colorOptions}}
In my actual schema I have an array of objects, and in each object I need to select an item from different collection. When you use afArrayField you can no longer set the options in the template as I did in the Template above (because it's an array of objects, and one element in the object would refer the helper).
Is my only option to query the database when I define the scheme? That I guess would make it non reactive, right?
{
favoriteColor: {
type: String,
autoform: {
options: function () {
return Colors.find().map(function (c) {
return {label: c.name, value: c._id};
});
}
}
}
}
Inserting the helper function directly into the schema will work. I'm doing something similar and it is reactive.
I want to be able to select several users from a list of users.
I am user collection2, simple-schema and autoform.
I'd like to generate a simple quickForm for doing this. Here's my simple-schema:
Schemas.Item = new SimpleSchema({
name: {
type: String,
label: "Name",
max: 100
},
userIds: {
type: [String],
regEx: SimpleSchema.RegEx.Id
}
});
Looking at the autoform docs, I noticed that I want to have a select view so I need to pass in options.
I'd like to be able to do this right in my schema!
userIds: {
type: [String],
regEx: SimpleSchema.RegEx.Id
options: function() {
// return users with {value:_id, label:username}
}
}
Otherwise, I'd have to generate a template with quickFormFields just to pass in the options.
Just to pile things on, there shouldn't be any duplicate userIds...
Thanks for any help
Probably you have already found an answer, but maybe somebody will find it useful. I have lots of different things to specify once you select user, that's why my type for users is [Object]. In your case, you can modify that. The most important part is autoform.options method and seems to be the part you were looking for.
users: {
type: [Object]
},
"users.$.id": {
// you can use your own type, e.g. SimpleSchema.RegEx.Id, as I am using custom Schema for accounts
type: Schemas.Account._id,
label: 'Select user',
autoform: {
options: function () {
var options = [];
Meteor.users.find().forEach(function (element) {
options.push({
label: element.username, value: element._id
})
});
return options;
}
}
}
Snippet above will give you the list of all the users so you can easily select them from dropdown list.
Remember to add appropriate publish method to make that working as without that you will always get only currently logged one.