Simple search functionality in Meteor using form input - meteor

Question

So I'm trying to implement a very simple search functionality in my Meteor app. It's a very simple medical dictionary app, so I have only one collection which contains all the terms along with their respective definitions, pronunciations, etc. My goal is for a user to input their search query using a form input, and display the relevant search results (after hitting submit, after keyup or keydown events, doesn't really matter for now; this is just a prototype). Here's what I have so far.
Search Bar (part of a template called header.html)
<form class="navbar-form navbar-left" role="search">
<div class="form-group">
<input type="text" id="search" name="search" class="form-control" placeholder="Search">
</div>
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-default">Submit</button>
</form>
Event Handler (called header.js)
Template.header.events({
'submit form': function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
var query = $(e.target).find('[name=search]').val();
// Log the query for testing
console.log(query);
//Log the object that is returned for testing
console.log(Dictionary.find({english: query}).fetch());
var result = Dictionary.find({english: query}).fetch();
}
});
List of Results (This is the part that doesn't work, in a template called itemsList.html)
<template name="itemsList">
<div class="items">
{{#each dictionary}}
<ul>
<!-- itemPage just refers to the page individual items -->
<li>{{english}}</li>
</ul>
{{/each}}
</div>
</template>
In this case {{english}} refers to the piece of data in the collection I would like to search for (the english word in the collection Dictionary).
So, now that I've got all that out of the way, my question is: what do I do from here? In header.js, the result from console.log(Dictionary.find({english: query}).fetch()); is/are the object(s) I'm looking for, so basically, what must I do to send that object/those objects to my itemsList.html template so I can iterate over it with a cursor?
I think I've been working at this too long, because I'm sure the solution is something really simple. Any help is appreciated, and if my approach is all wrong (I've seen a lot of people using sessions when searching for things), please let me know what I should do better. Also, I'm using iron-router and have autopublish turned off, so if changes need to made to either of those things please let me know that as well. Thanks!

Answer 1

Just save your search string in a session and subscribe using the session as an argument if it exists, that way you can dynamically subscribe to the data that you need to populate your template